Game saves
Software theme
Any tag that describes when or where the game can be saved, but does not include on what the saves are stored if anything.
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Games by year
Brøderbund published all these games.
Most common companies
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| Autosave points | Automatically saves the game progress at certain locations or when certain events occur. (too short) | 1992 / 2022 | 550 games |
| Periodic autosaves | Game progress is periodically (usually every 5 to 15 minutes) saved without any action from the player needed. | 1996 / 2019 | 84 games |
| Limited saves | Game progress can be saved only a limited number of times. This limit may be per level or per game. (too short) | 1982 / 2012 | 7 games |
| No multiplayer saves | Despite including campaign/story, other cooperative multiplayer mode or simply the default modes take significant amount of time, there's no way to save game progress. | 2007 / 2012 | 13 games |
| Multiplayer saves | Multiplayer game progress can be saved. (too short) | 1981 / 2014 | 6 games |
| No autosaves | The game does not automatically save at any point in time or place nor are there any retry points. (too short) | 1 game | |
| No saves | Player has no permanent game progress saves of any kind. (too short) | 1978 / 2021 | 144 games |
| Permanent death | Upon the protagonist's death, [i]all[/i] game progress is lost and the player must start the game all over instead of loading a save or restarting at some checkpoint such as level start. | 1971 / 2021 | 557 games |
| Save on exit | Saves or offers to save game progress when player exits the game. (too short) | 1983 / 2021 | 149 games |
| Opportunistic saves | The game saves whenever an opportunity rises for it, such as when anything worth recording in a save happens. | 2009 / 2019 | 23 games |
| Suspend save | Saves cause the player to quit a game until the save is loaded again. The save is erased upon load or when another save is made. | 1982 / 2018 | 67 games |
| Save anywhere | Allows saving the game progress at any point regardless of location with few if any limitations (such as no saving during combat). | 1981 / 2020 | 527 games |
| Save Passwords | Continuing game progress works via a password system. Often used in systems with no permanent data storage available & carried over to other platforms via crude ports | 1976 / 2017 | 1078 games |
| Save points | Allows saving manually at specific locations, such as certain safe rooms or on level change. (too short) | 1982 / 2021 | 374 games |
| Saves: Cross-platform | Allows cross-platform saves, generally by giving the player an easy way to import / export saves of the game from one platform to another. | 2012 / 2018 | 12 games |
| Save tokens | Saving requires using up a save token, limiting the number of saves to how many tokens you have and can find. | 1996 / 2016 | 14 games |
| Single save | Offers only single save slot per player, character, storage device, etc. (too short) | 1981 / 2020 | 142 games |
| Unlimited Saves | Game progress can [b][i]notably[/i][/b] be saved an unlimited limited number of times in contrast to what would be expected. | 1989 / 1992 | 2 games |