Where are Stellaris save games located?

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Where are my game saves located?

Windows: On Windows, most save games can be found by opening File Explorer and navigating to "%homepath%\\AppData\\LocalLow". You can do so by pasting that file path into the address bar in your file explorer.

How do I open Stellaris save file?

Use Notepad++ to open the . sav files. If you use 7-zip, it'll correctly compress the files for when you want to play on your edited savegame.

How do I open a saved game file?

If you cannot open your SAVE file correctly, try to right-click or long-press the file. Then click "Open with" and choose an application. You can also display a SAVE file directly in the browser: Just drag the file onto this browser window and drop it.

How do you save in Stellaris?

When you want to "save" an ironman game, exit to menu and back up the saved game folder from your "My Documents\\Paradox Interactive\\Stellaris\\save games" folder to another location. Then load the game to continue. You'll need to do that each time you want to save your progress.

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Locating save files within the Steam userdata folder

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