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I'd like to not lose progress in the games I've not completed when I'll be refreshing/resetting my Windows partitions. As such I'd love to know about websites where you put in the game name and get out the save file path.

Are there any?

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I'm kinda tempted to say Google. Appropriately enough, the answer is often found right here. – lunboks May 17 '12 at 19:52
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@lunboks I was hoping for something... better :) – badp♦ May 17 '12 at 20:05
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@RavenDreamer A link to that would be good enough for an answer – badp♦ May 17 '12 at 20:39
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@kotekzot Yeah, looking in $HOME$, $HOME$/Appdata/Local, $HOME$/Appdata/Roaming, $HOME$/My Documents/, $HOME$/My Documents/Saved Games got me many but not all the games on my disk. Notable exceptions include Steam Half Life 1's, Cave Story, Deus Ex 1, ... – badp♦ May 18 '12 at 12:53
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@badp old games tend to store saves in their install dir. – kotekzot May 18 '12 at 12:55
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You might want to try the freeware software GameSave Manager. It has a good database of game save locations/formats and supports steam and even GFWL.

http://www.gamesave-manager.com/

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