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Back Up Your Game Saves to the Cloud
Cleaning your library frees space — but it also means deleting and reinstalling games. GameCleaner backs up your local saves first, yet a backup that lives on the same drive dies with that drive. The fix: keep a copy in the cloud.
Why Steam Cloud isn't enough
Steam Cloud only covers games that opt in, often with size caps, and not your non-Steam titles, emulators, mods, or config. A general cloud backup of your save folders covers everything — and survives a wiped or failed SSD.
What to back up
- Per-game save folders (Documents, AppData, and each game's install dir)
- Mod and config files you'd hate to rebuild
- Controller and graphics profiles
The service we recommend
We use pCloud: encrypted, cross-platform, and it offers a one-time lifetime plan as well as monthly — so you can pay once and never think about it again. Saves are small, so even the entry tier holds years of them.
Set up encrypted save backup that outlives any drive:
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How GameCleaner fits in
When you uninstall or move a game, GameCleaner backs up its saves automatically and offers to push that backup to your cloud folder — so reclaiming space never risks your progress. One click, and your saves are safe on this disk and off it.
GameCleaner reclaims hundreds of GB and protects every save while it does. Get early access →