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Jorisbroekje

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Apr 5, 2022
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When exiting (and saving) my ironman game, the game crashed. Now the last save file from the game I was playing is 20 years earlier than where I was playing at. Is there any way to recover the save file? And does autosave not work in this instance?
 
If the game or computer crashes while writing a save file then file corruption is very likely to occur I'm afraid.

The Ironman paradigm includes having only one save file ever, to preclude save-scumming. That has the very unfortunately side-effect that there is no backup should a crash occur!

At least the crash did not happen while replacing your old save with the new one (the next step) as then you'd have nothing to go back to!