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Which games (except Torchlight) store the current state of the game to the Steam cloud?

What is the Steam Cloud? Steam is Valve's online game purchasing and digital delivery service/platform. Steam Cloud is a fairly new addition to the Steam platform that saves the state for various games to Steam's servers in the "cloud". Depending on the game it can save things like your savegames, character setup, keyboard mappings, options, etc so that any PC that you go to will download all those settings for you and keep them in sync as soon as you log into Steam.

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    What is steam cloud?
    – Lazer
    Commented Jul 8, 2010 at 9:20
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    Steam technology, stores data like savegames on Valve's servers so you can continue your game on any computer you install Steam on.
    – user56
    Commented Jul 8, 2010 at 10:50
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    Steam is Valve's online game purchasing and digital delivery service/platform. Steam Cloud is a fairly new addition to the Steam platform that saves the state for various games to Steam's servers in the "cloud". Depending on the game it can save things like your savegames, character setup, keyboard mappings, options, etc so that any PC that you go to will download all those settings for you and keep them in sync as soon as you log into Steam.
    – GAThrawn
    Commented Jul 8, 2010 at 11:01
  • @GAThrawn: i've copied your comment to explain the topic, thanx for that.
    – akira
    Commented Jul 8, 2010 at 13:51

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The full up-to-date list.

Things to note:

  • All Valve games use the Steam cloud.
  • The majority of games on that list are indie titles, not AAA games, probably because those titles were written specifically with Steam in mind. Still, there are quite a few AAA games there as well.
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    "All Valve games use the Steam cloud." - The original Half-Life and Portal don't support Steam Cloud, according to their store pages. They come in bundles with their respective sequels, and the pages to those indicate Steam Cloud is supported, but it can just mean something supports it. The link you gave also doesn't list Half-Life and Portal. So I guess newer Valve games all use Steam Cloud.
    – Kareen
    Commented Aug 15, 2012 at 5:21
  • I am pretty sure Portal uses Steam Cloud... It's from significanly after Steam, it's from the same time as Half Life 2: Episode 2. However, I would not be surprised if Half-Life and other GoldSrc games did not use Cloud.
    – Andrew Wonnacott
    Commented May 18, 2013 at 13:03
  • This answer is wrong. One counter-example: ARK Survival Evolved. Claims to use Steam Cloud, but it absolutely, entirely, completely doesn't.
    – Jürgen A. Erhard
    Commented Apr 25, 2023 at 14:52
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You can easily figure out for a particular game on its Steam page, look under Game Details. If it says Steam Cloud, it'll have your data in the sky.

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  • Tell that to Studio Wildcard, the devs of ARK Survival Evolved. (I'm pretty sure they're not alone, although I think it's quite a small group)
    – Jürgen A. Erhard
    Commented Apr 25, 2023 at 14:54

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