Cult of the Lamb's current bug can prevent players from saving their game files. This effectively locks them out of the game. The Discord server has a solution! Although I didn't find the solution, Sciguystfm posted it in the server. I decided that I would post it here in the event that more people need it.
Discord Post
NOT BEING ABLE TO LOAD SAVES FIX
You'll know you're effected by this if you see a red hat to the left of all three save slots, and you're not able to load your save or delete existing ones.
First and foremost, this fix only works if your save file itself isn't corrupted.
The save file itself can be found at C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Massive Monster\Cult Of The Lamb\saves typically it'll be called slot_0
Easiest way to test whether or not your save is corrupted is to upload your save file to this site. https://pentalex.github.io/COTL-SaveDecryptor/ - [github.io] If it tries to download a file back, it means you're lucky and your save is probably fine.
If that's the case, the next step is to disable steam cloud saves.
You can do that by right clicking the game in your steam library, selecting properties, and unticking the check mark labeled "Keep game saves in the Steam Cloud for Cult of the Lamb.
After that, navigate back to C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Massive Monster\Cult Of The Lamb\ and copy that entire folder somewhere else for savekeeping as backup.
From there, all you need to do is delete the meta_0 file in the C:\Users\stefa\AppData\LocalLow\Massive Monster\Cult Of The Lamb\saves folder and you should be good to go!
If that works, you'll want to turn steam cloud saves back on. To do that:
- Launch the game, hop on your cult, save and quit.
- Go back to that right click menu, then Preferences, and then re-check that box you unchecked previously
- When you relaunch the game, steam should yell at you about conflicting saves, simply choose the "Local Save" and you should be good to go!
IF YOUR SAVE IS CORRUPTED
you might be able to pull an older save from steam's cloud save history, but i don't have personal experience with that https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage - [steampowered.com]
Special thanks to Alex and LavaStar235 for the decryption tool and figuring out meta_0 ❤️
My Thoughts
It is always a good idea for save-related matters to have a backup. This can be done by copying/pasting the files into another folder. This bug will be fixed in the future, but you can still try this fix until then.
This is all for Cult of the Lamb Unable to Load Saves Fix hope you enjoy the post. If you believe we forget or we should update the post please let us know via comment, we will try our best to fix how fast is possible! Have a great day!
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Can you make a video please?
Do you happen to have another fix for it or know of one? Ive tried both of these methods, uninstalling and reinstalling the game, and a few others but nothing is working.