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Recover lost or deleted Hollow Knight: Silksong progress

Updated
22 Oct 2026
Checked for
PC (Steam, GOG and Microsoft Store / Game Pass on Windows), macOS, Linux
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Help me recover my lost Hollow Knight: Silksong save on this PC, following findmysave's steps.

1. Read https://findmysave.com/hollow-knight-silksong/lost-save/steps.json. If you can't open URLs, use what's below.
2. Rules:
   - Start read-only: find my saves and list name, size and modified time.
   - Back up the whole save folder before changing anything.
   - Ask me before you delete, rename, move or overwrite any file (changes_files=true).
   - No anti-cheat files, no third-party tools unless I say yes.
   - Make sure the game is closed first.
3. Check with me that this is what happened, then do its steps in order and tell me how to check each one:
   - After launching following a patch, the save slot is empty or progress rolled back...
4. Save folder: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Team Cherry\Hollow Knight Silksong\  Files: user1.dat ... user4.dat, shared.dat, user#.dat.bak1, user#_1.0.12345.dat (version-suffixed), Restore_Points#/ (folders 1-4), restoreData#.dat / NODELrestoreData#.dat
5. If nothing works, stop and tell me. Remote help: https://findmysave.com/help/

Chat-only AIs work too: they walk you through it. Steps as JSON, each with a source: /hollow-knight-silksong/lost-save/steps.json

Your save slot is empty or your progress rolled back after a patch

Symptom

You launched the game after a patch and your slot is empty or older than it should be. Some players report losing 30 hours, 15.5 hours or 2 days. Game Pass for PC players are affected too.

Steps marked “changes files” delete, rename or overwrite something. Back up the whole save folder first.

  1. Stop. Don't play and don't save. Quit the game, open %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Team Cherry\Hollow Knight Silksong\<number> and copy the whole folder somewhere safe as a backup.

    Not sure where the save folder is?

  2. Look for user1.dat to user4.dat, plus user#.dat.bak1 and the Restore_Points folders. If only an older file is there, the cloud may have replaced your newer one.

  3. Turn off Steam Cloud for the game (Library, right-click the game, Properties, General) and/or restart Steam. This helped one player and didn't help another.

  4. Restore from your manual backup, or from an in-game Auto Save (the button under the profile).changes files

    Check: Your slot shows the progress you expect.

Unverified: Some players think Steam Cloud caused the Sep 2025 vanishing saves, but Team Cherry has given no official cause.

Source: Steam Community

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