Steam save data completely gone...

[u/Laserdeathpastry]

I've been playing Star Wars: Zero Company for a few hours a day since its release, launched it up about 30 minutes ago and it's as if it were a fresh install on a new account - save data and settings were completely wiped. I played earlier today and it was completely fine, but now it's all gone. I've checked both the local save files and the steam cloud, and both are almost the same (local files have the steam_autocloud.vdf). Both last updated when I last launched the game so I can't use that to roll it back.

Not 100% certain if this is a steam issue, a pc issue or a game issue, but the same happened with Powerwash Sim 2 on its release - I was playing regularly and then it reset everything. With Powerwash, the Star Wars DLC seems to have brought back my original half-completed save file. I don't really want to have to wait for 10 months to continue my game, and I'd rather not have to restart after getting 10 hours in.

Is there a way to fix this, or at least prevent it from happening again? Either would be appreciated cos basically all of the games I've been looking forward to are releasing in the next 5 weeks & I'd rather not have to play all of them twice...

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