Hello, I am making this quick guide to spread some light on the nature of Code Vein save files. I mainly made this to help anyone who might've lost their save game from the game misbehaving, a computer crash, or maybe a solar flare.

This is after Steam's "Check Integrity of Local Game Cache" fails to help you.


To give a quick recap of the video:

There are two main fixes, in sections Fix Method #1 and #2. There are some common prerequisites for these, which is in the Save File Locations section.

Your Code Vein Saved games are located here %LocalAppData%\CodeVein\Saved\SaveGames

You can copy and paste that into your browser, or if that doesn't work for you you can manually browse to it.

C:\Users\"Your Windows Account Name"\AppData\Local\CodeVein\Saved\SaveGames

In here you'll have a folder that is seemingly randomly numbered. It is your numeric steam ID. Under this folder you have a minimum of 2 files in a healthy installation
"CommonData_Slot0v008" and "GameData_Slot*v001"

As far as i can tell, The Common Data acts as an index file of where your saved files are, and I'm guessing also contains your New game compatible characters. This file name is always the same.
GameData is the meat and bones, that has all your progress, unlocks, items and so forth. The * number (before the V) is the "slot" location and the "01"1 is always there. This file will not work without the CommonData file.

You can also access the last steam synced copy of the GameData file on your steam cloud as well, if enabled.

Before modifying or deleting any files, I highly encourage you to make a new folder on your desktop, and make copies of the existing save files. That way if something goes wrong, you don't lose the original file(s) you were trying to recover.

This method is the easiest, but didn't work in all situations. For whatever reason, the game wont look into the steam ID folder. I solved this one by making a copy of the two files into the SaveGames folder before the SteamIDnumber folder. When i relaunched the game, it found the files and just worked.

Once your game is loaded, save your game as a mistle, and exit the game. Take the two files under SaveGames and move them into the SteamIDnumber folder. Verify your game works again, and this method is complete. Please note it is important to move the files BACK into the SteamIDnumber folder, otherwise the game may load the wrong files at a later date.

This is when it really goes sideways. You've either already tried Method 1 and it doesn't work, or you don't even have any data in those folders.

The only real file you need is the GameData file to get your stuff back. You can get that file from the steam save downloaded earlier, or if it still exists in the AppData folder. In the video I use the file from steam.

First step is to make sure the save games folder is clear.

Launch Code Vein. It will see its your "First time" playing the game. Follow all the in-game prompts to get to the initial tutorial, and skip it. Once you're in the city ruins, and the save icon disappears, you can just Alt+F4 the game

At this point the game made a new CommonData and GameData save file. Whats important here is the GameData slot # in the file name. This is what you will rename your backup GameData to. Do that, and overwrite the new GameData file it made.

Relaunch Code Vein again. You should now have the option to Continue. Do this and you should have your expected save data back. Save and close the game properly and you're ready to rock and roll. You can clean up any copy'd files outside of the AppData folder you made earlier.