How to save in Dying Light The Beast

Saving a game is usually a straightforward process, but since you’re here, chances are you’ve been having trouble with saving progress or using save files in Dying Light’s latest installment, The Beast. Don’t worry—you’re certainly not the only one with this issue. 

This guide covers everything you need to know about saving in Dying Light: The Beast and accessing its save location.

How to save in Dying Light The Beast

Dying Light: The Beast has an automatic save feature, so it tracks your play activity and saves progress on its own at intervals. You don’t have to take special action—like press a button or sleep at a checkpoint—to update your current save file.

If you have cloud saves enabled, you can play Dying Light: The Beast from any device on the same platform without losing out on progress. Players who aren’t looking for this benefit can stick to local saves, which work just fine.

Why can’t you save in Dying Light The Beast?

Despite having a pretty successful launch, Dying Light: The Beast definitely doesn’t come without its share of quirks. Players love how it maintains the franchise’s iconic zombie experience while acting upon crucial features like parkour and combat to make them shinier. That said, the bugs are too apparent to be avoidable, especially the one affecting saving game files on PC.

So if you can’t load back exactly where you left off, don’t worry—it’s not you, it’s Techland. In fact, even graphics settings aren’t saving as they should, forcing players to reconfigure every time they launch the game. 

While many have reported issues with saving progress and settings in Dying Light: The Beast, Techland has yet to address them with a hotfix. Thankfully, there’s a workaround you can try to bypass them for now. 

All you need to do is run Steam as an administrator: Right-click on the Steam executable file and select Run as administrator. Now, launch Dying Light: The Beast as you do. If you use a direct executable for the game, right-click on that and select Run as administrator. This workaround has solved the saving issues in Dying Light: The Beast for many. Some players found relief by disabling cloud saves and the anti-virus protecting their PC instead. 

Since the game has launched recently, Techland will likely fix all reported issues with time, so you don’t have to use this workaround forever.

Dying Light The Beast save file location

The save file for Dying Light: The Beast may be located in different paths depending on the download folder you chose. But it’s usually located here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\[Steam ID]\3008130\remote\out\save  

If you can’t find this path or use a different download folder for Steam, you can manually look for the save file by following these steps:

1. Open your Steam library and then go to the Dying Light: The Beast page.
2. Here, click on the cog icon on the right, hover over Manage, and select Browse local files.
3. Once the folder opens, in the path address, click on Steam.
4. Find and open the “user data” folder. Then, find and open the folder with your Steam ID.
5. Next, open the folder named “3008130,” which is the App ID of Dying Light: The Beast.
6. Go to remote > out > save.

That’s it. You should have landed in the save location by now. If you’re looking for a guide to safe codes and combinations in Dying Light: The Beast, check out ours here.