Where Sandustry Saves Your Game

Pick the route that matches what you are doing

What you want	What to use
Continue on a second machine of your own	Steam Cloud, or Xbox cloud saves on Game Pass
Send a save to a friend, or to a bug report	In-game Export
Keep a copy that survives a bad patch	The Windows folder, on Steam

Steam Cloud already moves saves between your own machines

Sandustry’s Steam listing includes Steam Cloud, so a second PC signed into the same Steam account picks up where the first one left off. There is nothing to copy and no path to find.

You can confirm it and switch it off in one place: right-click Sandustry in your Steam library → Properties → General → Keep game saves in the Steam Cloud. That toggle only exists for games that sync, so its presence is the answer.

Export from inside the game

This is the route the developers point people to, and it is the one to use when the save has to leave your account — sending it to support, or to a friend who wants to see the factory that jammed:

1. Press Esc to open the pause menu
2. Click Load
3. Select the save you want
4. Click Export

It produces a single file you can attach anywhere, and it does not care which operating system you are on.

The Windows folder, on Steam

When you need the raw files — backing up before a patch, or copying a whole save set at once — the folder is:

%APPDATA%\sandustry\saves

Press Win + R, paste it, press Enter. Windows expands %APPDATA% for you, so there is no need to hunt through AppData\Roaming by hand.

macOS and Linux

Sandustry ships native macOS and Linux builds, and the developers have published a folder path for Windows only — there is no macOS or Linux path to look up. Use what the game itself gives you: Steam Cloud carries your progress to a second machine on the same account, and Export produces a file you can send anywhere.

If you are chasing a crash rather than a save, the log paths are published for all three platforms, on the crash and FPS fixes page.

Back up before you update

Sandustry is in Early Access and patches land often. On Steam for Windows, copy the saves folder somewhere else before you install an update — it takes a few seconds, and it is what gives you a state to go back to.

Steam Cloud does not do this job. It syncs whatever the game wrote last, so it carries a broken save to your other machines exactly as faithfully as a good one. Do it before installing an update, not after you notice a problem.

Game Pass copies work differently

Everything above is the Steam build. The PC Game Pass build is not a Steam build, so Steam Cloud has nothing to do with it — those copies sync through Xbox cloud saves instead. See Is Sandustry on Game Pass? for what your subscription covers.

Related

• Crash and FPS fixes — the other pinned post worth having bookmarked, and where the log paths live
• Is Sandustry on Game Pass? — the copy that syncs through Xbox instead of Steam
• Sandustry Updates and Patch Notes — what you are backing up against