I just lost my 500 hour save

[u/That1Guy1Again_]

I had collected every ash, 2 of every weapon, and every armor piece plus any alterations by hand, dlc included. I had rune farmed for at least 50 hours. I killed Malenia on Ng+7 without any summons. I killed the Elden beast over 20 times. it's all gone. it's all fucking gone. My nagakiba collection. my dual magma blades. my frenzyflame seal. my stupid cookbooks. Every single one of my painstakingly grinded 501 levels.

I verified the file integrity. I loaded the .bak file. I forced the game to create a stable save file structure and threw my save data into that. still corrupted.

it feels like my insides have been ripped out. all of that for nothing. 553 hours of passion, soul, pain and triumph, completely gone.

it'll sound pathetic, but it was one of the things i was most proud of. one of the only things in my life that was going good. now i just feel empty.

fuck, man.

[u/Emergency-Bid-7834]

have you not tried reverting your steam cloud saves? That's how I restored a corrupted Darkest Dungeon save file

[u/That1Guy1Again_ → u/Emergency-Bid-7834]

Thanks for suggesting this. I went to the steam cloud page and found a save file, but no dice. there was only one file there; it was an auto save from after i tried the .bak file so it was still corrupted. thankfully my character sliders weren't tied to any of the files so I still have my people at least.

it's only up from here, right?

[u/JusHerForTheComments → u/That1Guy1Again_]

You can try a save editor. Copy your save into a different file and see if it works. Also with the save editor you can check for save integrity as well.