The most difficult part about buying or building a new computer is moving your data from the old one. And when it comes to games, it gets even trickier. Games are difficult to back up as there is a lot of different content included. There are the original installation files, game progress files, downloaded content, etc.
Free Game Backup software for PC
If you are wondering how to save or backup your games progress, settings, files, data then these free game save managers are what you are looking for:
- Game Backup Monitor
- GameSave Manager
- SaveGameBackup.
Lete us take a look at them in details.
1] Game Backup Monitor
Game Backup Monitor is a free and open source tool that lets you manage your game progress files. It supports most of the games, and if your game is not supported, you can manually create it too. The tool provides extensive features and backup options. The best part about this tool is that it keeps monitoring the changes in progress files and automatically creates a backup when a change is detected.
You can rely on this tool as it will always maintain the latest version of files in the backup. Plus, if you have any cloud storage application installed (Google Drive, OneDrive), you can directly save your files on the cloud. Uploading them to the cloud would help you in syncing them across computers, in case you play a game on multiple computers.
2] GameSave Manager
GameSave Manager is a similar tool that lets you create backup archives for game progress files. It works with most of the games, and you can create manual entries too. The best part about the tool is that it also creates a backup of the game’s registry values along with progress files. Moreover, you can also create scheduled backups and the tool would automatically backup your game progress.
The Sync and link feature let you easily move specified saves to a custom directory via symbolic links. This can also be used to directly upload files to Cloud Services like Dropbox and Google Drive and maintain sync between both the files.
3] SaveGameBackup
SaveGameBackup is a rather simple and reliable tool. It helps you backup your game progress so that when you are re-installing the game again, you can start from where you left off. The tool supports a long list of games, and there is an option to define custom entries as well. It will automatically detect games on your system and provide you with backup options.
The files are backed up at a defined location in ZIP format and can be restored easily using this tool. The program also provides various options in case of conflicting backups. You can select an option which will disable overriding old backups. Or you can simply enable an option that will include a timestamp in the filenames.
So these were some of the free Game Backup software available for Windows. These tools are a must-have for every gamer. Although many games come with a cloud backup functionality built into them, if you like to play a game that does not automatically backup the progress then these tools can help you a lot. If you use any other tool, do not forget to mention it in the comments down below.
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