Time Saving Saves

Save Install Location

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C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\EldenRing is the Default location your save files are located. If you have moved your save file manually to somewhere else, I would hope you don't need my help in finding where you put them lol.

Within this folder, you should find a folder with a long digit number for a name. Just open that bad boy up, and you should see a file or several files ending with . sl2. Those are your personal save files that I highly recommend you copy and paste somewhere else as your own 'Backup Saves' of your progess before using these saves I have provided you.

Eitherway, just drag and drop whichever save version of mine you wish to play with, and overwrite the files currently inside your long digit number folder when asked. Next time you start the game, you should save a single charcter named 'Time Saving Save' as a generic looking level 1 white dude, that you can play the game starting at Level 1 with.

You can of course replace your own save backup, to overwrite this mod and get your saves you already have back, at anytime you wish too.

For some users, Elden Ring can prove an annoyance in how saves from other steam accounts don't work as they should, as they get the "Failed to load save data" popup. Thankfully there already exists a tool that acts as a workaround for this problem, that you can here: Elden Ring Save Repair

Instructions for it can be found at the bottom of this description.

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Did you know that Elden Ring actually leaves A LOT of useful and often necessary items for later in the game just lying around the world from the moment you start the game? Were you aware that you can technically start a new game, then avoid every NPC, every boss, and just run around all the stages before entering the capital, collecting most of the Flask Upgrades, spare smiting stones lying around, and various other items, all in order to then give you a much more streamlined and enjoyable play through after you've already done all the busywork of collecting such items from the start?

Well whether you knew this or not, I can bet you are VERY put off by the idea of how many hours of work, consulting the wiki for each location, and running back and forth across the whole damn map it would be. No doubt it's for that reason you don't want to do all this crap on every new play through you come back to over the various months?

I feel the same way. So I have taken it upon myself to endure the hours and hours of boring, tedious, wiki on the second monitor, grueling process, in order to p