How to Fish Save Location & Steam Cloud — Patch 1.0.12

FIRST CHECK

Patch 1.0.12 adds Steam Cloud; existing local saves upload after one play-and-exit on the source PC. Corruption backups and manual copies remain separate protections.

Windows saves are under %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Dazed Games\How to Fish\Saves\<SteamID64>. Steam Cloud is live as of Patch 1.0.12. If one PC already has the progress you want, launch and exit the game normally on that source PC once before opening the game on another device. That is the developer's documented upload step.

The numbered child folder matters when more than one Steam account has used the PC. Choose the folder whose modified time changes after your clean save and exit; do not replace every numbered folder.

Start with your situation

1. 01What are you doing?Pick one current task
2. 02migrationMoving to another PCUpdate → play source save → exit normally
3. 03backupMaking a safety copySave → quit → copy matching SteamID64 folder
4. 04corruptionRecovering corruptionDo not overwrite files; official restore steps are undocumented
5. 05Verify before replacing anythingCheck destination progress or the dated copy

What are you doing?→migrationMoving to another PCWhat are you doing?→backupMaking a safety copyWhat are you doing?→corruptionRecovering corruptionMoving to another PC→Verify before replacing anythingMaking a safety copy→Verify before replacing anything

Read the route as text

1. What are you doing?Pick one current task
2. Moving to another PCUpdate → play source save → exit normally
3. Making a safety copySave → quit → copy matching SteamID64 folder
4. Recovering corruptionDo not overwrite files; official restore steps are undocumented
5. Verify before replacing anythingCheck destination progress or the dated copy

Upload existing saves with the Patch 1.0.12 step

1. Install or update to Patch 1.0.12. Restart Steam if the update is not showing.
2. On the PC that already has your saves, launch How to Fish.
3. Exit normally after the session.
4. That one play-and-exit cycle is the documented upload trigger.

If you need a local safety net before updating or moving machines, use the manual folder copy below in addition to Cloud—not instead of the official play-and-exit step.

Save and exit before making a manual copy

Patch 1.0.6 says the game saves once per minute and when you press Save, Main Menu, or Quit. It also says a crash no longer writes a new local or server save. Patch 1.0.11 adds a separate protection layer: saves are checked for corruption before loading, and the game now has backups in case of corruption.

Before opening or copying the save folder:

1. Press Save in the game.
2. Leave through Quit or Main Menu instead of force-closing the process.
3. Wait until Steam no longer shows the game as running.
4. Copy the folder only after the game is closed.

This four-step copy is your own precautionary backup. It is separate from Steam Cloud and from the automatic corruption backups named in Patch 1.0.11. The official announcements do not explain how to open or restore those automatic backups, so do not delete, rename, or replace save files as a supposed recovery step based on this page.

What the current patches establish

Patch 1.0.12 establishes Steam Cloud storage and the source-PC play-and-exit upload instruction. It does not establish conflict resolution rules, a player-facing restore screen, or a tested multi-device outcome for every hardware path.

Patch 1.0.11 establishes two local save protections: the game checks save files for corruption before loading, and save files have backups in case they become corrupt. It does not establish where those automatic backups live, which save they cover, how many copies exist, how long they are kept, or what player-facing action restores one.

Patch 1.0.6 adds the earlier save behavior used by the manual-copy steps: a one-minute save interval, saves on Save, Main Menu, and Quit, and no new local or server save after a crash. The Windows root and SteamID64 account-folder pattern below come from SteamDB's UFS mirror; the Proton/Bazzite path comes from one player report. Neither path is published in the patch notes.

Open the Windows save location

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Dazed Games\How to Fish\Saves\

Press Win + R, paste that path, and press Enter. This bypasses the normally hidden AppData folder. SteamDB's current UFS configuration mirror adds one more level beneath Saves: a {64BitSteamID} account folder. If several long-number folders appear, use the post-exit modified time to identify the one the game just wrote.

After using Save and exiting normally, confirm that the selected account folder's modified time changed. If it did not, stop before replacing files and verify that you are in the correct Windows profile and Steam account.

Reported Steam Deck, Bazzite, or Proton location

<SteamLibrary>/steamapps/compatdata/4001890/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/LocalLow/Dazed Games/How to Fish/Saves/

The community report confirmed this structure on Bazzite. Its full mount point began under /run/media/system/, but that prefix depends on the storage and Steam library. Start from the library that contains How to Fish and follow steamapps/compatdata/4001890.

The same player said the Steam Deck path was an assumption and had not been verified. Do not present the Bazzite mount point as a universal Deck path, and do not treat Patch 1.0.12 as a guarantee that every Deck or Proton install will sync without further checks on your own hardware.

Preserve the reported folder without overwriting a live save

After a normal in-game save and exit, you can copy the reported Saves folder to a separate, dated location as a precaution. This manual copy is controlled by you; it is not the automatic corruption backup described in Patch 1.0.11 and it is not Steam Cloud. Do not overwrite another device's folder on the strength of this page: the supplied sources do not document a supported restore procedure, conflict handler, or file-compatibility guarantee between installs.

If you are moving devices, keep the original installation untouched until Cloud has had a chance to upload from the source PC, and keep your dated folder copy until you can confirm the destination install sees the expected progress.

Return to the How to Fish guide hub for boss and achievement help.

Sources & evidenceOpen the references used for this page

• Official How to Fish Steam listing
• Official Patch 1.0.12 — Steam Cloud support
• Official How to Fish announcements hub
• Official Patch 1.0.11 — corruption checks and save backups
• Official Patch 1.0.6 — save validation, autosave, and crash behavior
• SteamDB How to Fish UFS configuration — current mirror of the Steam Cloud root, account-folder pattern, quota, and file pattern; technical secondary source.
• Player cloud-save and path discussion — Bazzite path confirmed by the poster; Windows and Steam Deck paths were not verified in that post.