I've already seen this question and this one, but neither explicitly tells me whether a particular game syncs saved game files to the Steam Cloud.
Do all Steam games with Steam Cloud enabled automatically sync your saved games?
Are there some games that don't?
How can I tell which are which?
I ask because I'm about to go on a bloodthirsty purge of my locally-installed Steam games, and I don't want to lose my saves. The Steam Cloud seems like a perfect option (redownload the game, get all your saves back at the same time), but I don't want to accidentally delete a game and then later discover "Oh, by the way, we didn't sync your saves, but we did sync your graphics preferences! Ha ha!"
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Currently, after latest games library UI update (November 2019), you can find that in game details:
- Select a game on the list
- Click 'Show more details' button
- If the game supports Cloud Saves, the appropriate information will be listed in details somewhere under the button
In the sidebar in a game's store page you can find this kind of information about what Steam features a game supports.
Not all games support Steam Cloud. If you are worried about these games' save files, you could use a tool that finds all game save files and make a backup of them for you. It's called GameSave Manager
One way to tell is to find the game's remote folder in your steam userdata. I find the easiest way to figure out which game is the right one is to launch it, save your game, and exit. Then sort the folders by last updated date. This is my steam userdata folder for UnEpic G:\Steam\userdata\XXXXXXXX\233980 (the X's will be digits that are your steam account id or something.)
Once in this folder check out the contents of the remote folder. This is where the files synced to steamcloud are stored. You may be able to identify what information is being synced by the contents of this folder. For example, UnEpic has the following.
G:\Steam\userdata\XXXXXXXX\233980\remote
\save (folder with game_0.sav in it)
\config.cfg
\retos.bin
It appears this game saves your savegame files, configuration, and another unkown file.
If you go to the store page of some game, you can see in the right column if it uses Steam Cloud or not, below of Metascore and. For example:
Orcs must die! has the icon of a cloud and the phrase "Steam Cloud".
Natural Selection 2 not.
2If you go to your library and enble the List View, you can then Right-Click on a game with the cloud icon, under Properties -> Updates, you will see a check box to sync 'your experience'.
There is also a check box under Settings --> Cloud.
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