Everything here I discovered by looking at the exitsave file periodically throughout multiple playthroughs. This meant doing some runs with the express goal to do or get one thing more than another thing to determine which entry they're tied to. Some of this could have been figured out faster by looking at certain lua files. I also do not know how the game knows to look for an exitsave file, how it remembers your permanent stats, or what stats 0, 1, 23, 25, or 26 are for... so if you've figured these out let me know and I'll update the guide!

When you finish a level, you'll have the option to Save and Exit. Doing this will kick you to the Main Menu and generate a save file so that you can safely close the game and continue your run some other time. (You could also press Continue or start a New Game right away, which will delete the file you just made)

The exitsave file is saved in Steam's userdata folder for Teleglitch.

Now that you have a file, you can take a look at your run so far in more detail.

Caution: Launching the game will likely delete this file immediately, even if you do not load into your save or start a new run. Do not launch if you aren't 100% sure you can play

It's as if the file is loaded into ram and deleted from disk upon launch, but since the file can only be created by completing a level, this little quirk happens.

The first line will be the next level of your run.
If there were multiple teleporters to choose from, you may instead see the 'b' level

The inventory section will be 20 lines in the order of your 20 inventory slots in-game.
Each entry will have the format of: Quantity in Stack, Item Name, and Ammo Loaded in Magazine
Important or rare items can only have a quantity (or 'stack') of 1 per inventory slot, but more common items such as consumables or crafting items can have stacks of 2 or more.
Items that do not have magazines such as one-time-use weapons, consumables, or crafting items will always have an Ammo Loaded of 0.

Empty slots in your inventory will be represented with a null entry

The names of items will be different than how they appear in-game. That's because English is not the developers' primary language, but the language is close enough to figure it out with context. If you cannot figure out what a name is supposed to translate to in-game, search for it in the relvad.lua file (located in steamapps\common\TeleglitchDME\lua) and look at the "invtext" entry for that item. The game is almost entirely lua scripts, so the .lua files in general are also worth a look through to correct the many spelling mistakes that appear through out the game in terminal messages, item descriptions, post level monologues, etc. It's also possible to localize the game this way, but this "hard coded" string style makes it much more labor intensive than if it used dynamic language project files or something.

Self explanatory structure: ammo type followed by how much of it you have. This information is hidden in-game unless you're actively holding a weapon, then you can see that weapon's ammo pool. So the only way to see your entire ammo stock is to have at least one weapon for every ammo type! Afaik, there is no hardcoded limit to how much ammo you can have here, but given that there's a fixed amount of loot and enemies (with % chance to drop loot) for each level, and you're also probably using said ammo, you're never going to find an entry higher than a few hundred. Unless you really like crafting nailammo and never using it...

Wait....why is the armor entry lumped in with ammo??

Well, the next section, Achievement Qualifiers has the health entry right after it.
Looks like when they added achievements to the game, they misplaced the section's write out by one line and split the health section in two! D'oh

These are special trackers needed to know if you qualify for an achievement, but weren't stats previously tracked for the Game Over screen (see next section). Some of these entries will not be in your file if you haven't done that action yet, but if they are they will always be in this order.


g_stimulanttimer is interesting because it's not really needed for an achievement to work. I guess it's a QOL feature to ensure that stim doesn't end prematurely between levels if you save and exit, which more people would be experiencing when going after the achievement. The stat counting down to -1 sort of explains why each 120 second stim activation always counts as 3601 frames instead of 3600 for g_framesunderinfluence....game must be counting 0 as an extra frame of buff.


Stats needed for the Game Over Screen. There's 5 that I haven't figured out yet, any insights would be appreciated! I have seen references to 4 enemies not reflected below: a second Green zombie entry, Sponge (or slow brown mutant), Jumping Spider (or Jumping Mutant), and Dummy. Dummy is only in the tutorial. The tutorial also includes another special enemy, a shooting target which seems to be a door, and a reference to a 'skeleton' that I have not seen referenced anywhere yet. So that's 6, so excluding the tutorial-only enemies that leaves one completely unused enemy?