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Today Steam forced me to update the game and my actual game crashed just when loaded. After this I tried to roll back to the two previous versions but all my savegames are gone. Coming back to the latest version does not bring back the save games. I checked the save game folder and it is empty.

Is there any way to recover them and make them work?
 
Did you check both the local and cloud save folders? Their locations are in the pinned thread above with "file locations" in its title.
 
Did you check both the local and cloud save folders? Their locations are in the pinned thread above with "file locations" in its title.

The local folder is empty. The cloud one has only one savegame which happens to be several months old, it seems an autosave from the very beginning of the game.
 
Well, there is nothing in the game that deletes saves, regardless of game version. I cannot account for what you have seen here!

I assume they are not in the Windows trashcan?

You are not using a userdir.txt file to redirect game writes, are you?
 
Well, there is nothing in the game that deletes saves, regardless of game version. I cannot account for what you have seen here!

I assume they are not in the Windows trashcan?

You are not using a userdir.txt file to redirect game writes, are you?

You asume right.

I do not even know what "userdir.txt" does and what "redirect game writes" is.

I suspect Steam erased the savegames when I rolled back, but this is the first time it happens to me and definetely not the first time I roll back.
 
Steam has no idea where local saved games are, for sure. It does know where cloud saves are cached locally of course; do you know if the missing saves were local or cloud?

Either way, I don't recall any other such reports with any of our games; reverting to older versions is a common workaround or diagnostic measure and we'd know if this happened!
 
They were local.

PS: I am not sure if the autosaves were local or cloud.
 
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They were local.
Then it was not Steam that deleted them, as it did not know that folder even existed.

I am sorry this happened to you! But I have no idea how it could have happened.