v0.5.3

v0.5.3

Released 9 August 2026

Steam Deck and Linux release. Games staged in Heroic Games Launcher — Epic, GOG, Amazon and
sideloaded titles — are now discovered with their save folders already filled in, without having to
be added to Steam first.

Nothing about how saves sync has changed, and no save data is touched by upgrading.

Before you upgrade

• This is an agent release. Update your agents; the console only carries the updated Help and
  these notes, so redeploying it is optional and can wait.
• On Steam Deck, download the newer tarball and re-run install.sh. Windows agents update themselves
  once the installer is uploaded in Config → Agent Updates.
• No database changes. Downgrading the container is a clean rollback.
• If you rely on auto-detection for older games that keep their saves in the game's own install
  folder, read Known issues first — a few of those now ask you to pick the folder by hand.

Added

• Heroic Games Launcher games are detected. SaveLocker reads Heroic's own library and finds
  games installed from the Epic, GOG and Amazon stores, as well as anything sideloaded
  into it. Unlike everything else on Linux, these do not need adding to Steam first — SaveLocker
  finds them from Heroic directly.

  Save folders are resolved inside the Wine prefix Heroic runs each game in. This is why they never
  worked before: adding a Heroic game to Steam gave it a Steam shortcut, so it appeared in Add
  Games, but its saves live in a prefix Heroic manages and Steam knows nothing about — so the
  folder came up empty, every time, and had to be typed in by hand.

• A Heroic game added to Steam is listed once, not twice. It is genuinely discoverable two ways;
  you see one entry, the one that knows where the saves are.

• savelocker doctor reports Heroic. Which games it found and from which store, and the prefix
  each one runs in. On a Steam Deck in Game Mode this is often the only place to see what went wrong.

Fixed

• A game's own install folder is no longer offered as its save folder. Some games — mostly older
  ones — keep their saves as loose files sitting beside the game's .exe. SaveLocker syncs folders,
  so the only folder it could offer for those was the whole game directory.

  That was worse than untidy. Restoring a save deletes anything in the save folder that is not in the
  backup, so restoring one of these games onto a second machine could have deleted files from that
  machine's game installation. Where the install folder is the only candidate, SaveLocker now shows
  No save folder set and asks you to pick one.

  Some games improve from this outright: Cave Story+ stores a few files beside its executable
  and keeps its real saves in Documents, and the install folder used to win. It now finds the
  right folder on its own.

Known issues

• A few older games no longer detect their save folder automatically. These are the games
  described above, whose saves sit loose in the install folder with nothing better to offer. They
  still sync perfectly once you point SaveLocker at a folder — use Set save folder in the agent,
  or savelocker add-game --dir. Support for backing up individual save files, which is what these
  games actually need, is planned.

• Native Linux games installed through Heroic are not detected. Only Windows titles running under
  Wine or Proton are supported.

• Heroic sometimes names a game's prefix Prefixes/Title. That comes from Heroic's own "add a
  game" form, not from SaveLocker, and it is harmless. Do not rename the folder to tidy it up —
  Heroic keeps the old path in its settings, creates a new empty prefix there, and runs the game in
  that one, stranding your existing saves in the folder you renamed. Change the prefix in Heroic's
  per-game settings instead. savelocker doctor points this out if it finds a game in that state.

• Very recent releases are often missing from the community game manifest entirely. Those still need
  their folder set by hand, and always have.