Dark Souls Remastered save file location & backup

Copy and restore the whole account manually

Imagine character A was ready for a boss when you made the backup, then you played character B for another hour. Restoring the earlier account save for A can also discard B’s later hour. “Character A · boss” is only the backup’s label; it does not extract A from the account file.

1. Exit the game and copy the complete account folder shown above into a separate, dated backup folder.
2. Before restoring, keep today’s complete folder separately. Put a copy of the chosen backup back at the original path, preserve its folder hierarchy, then check every character in-game.

Two characters, one account save: what a rollback actually replaces

Before confirming, retain the current complete account save and check the restore scope shown on screen. After restoration, inspect every character that matters to you. If you needed only one character’s state, stop before attempting to splice files: ordinary whole-file backup does not perform character-level conversion.

Keep recognizable milestones

Keep explicit milestones before a major route choice, a practice session, a version change or a migration. For example, record “character A, first playthrough, before boss practice” together with the game version. Routine history is useful for recent changes but can rotate.

A permanent copy remains local unless you deliberately export or use available cloud backup. Keep an off-device copy for important progress and confirm that its transfer finished. “Permanent” describes retention within the library, not immunity from disk failure.

If a save is missing or shows old progress

Pause new gameplay while checking edition, Steam account, Windows user and selected character. A different profile or slot can look like missing progress. Preserve current files, then inspect timeline history, permanent milestones and independent exports.

Restore only a candidate you can identify. A backup manager cannot reconstruct uncaptured playtime. If no suitable retained copy exists, do not promise recovery or import an unknown player’s save as a substitute for the original state.

Verify the recovered state

Check the character list, location and one remembered milestone before continuing. If the result is unexpected, retain the target and current-state safety copy, then inspect account, scope and launcher activity before another attempt.

To return to the state before a restore, select the corresponding before-restore backup in the timeline and check its time and scope. It does not reverse every older choice. Keep the important copies until in-game verification is complete.