How to Save and Load your Game In Unreal Engine 5 (Easy) 

Dude! You are an angel of UE5! In a month I came out from knowing nothing to understanding something!

I've been using Unreal for a little over a year and have started my first major game (I've done a bunch of little side quest projects). I remember watching a video of yours when I first started learning, and I had to take notes, stop every few minutes to figure out what you we teaching, etc. Now I can just watch a video and understand what I need to do. It's crazy how you go from feeling completely overwhelmed to feeling like all of this is natural.

I really like you showing mistakes/bugs you're making. It's really helpful to see what and why can go wrong!!

So short and simple. Man, you are amazing!

Dude I'm new in Unreal Engine, I must Say your content is gold 👌🏾

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, I was messing with save games for an hour, having no clue why I cant load my save, then I came across your video and saw that you type "save1" instead of putting a string variable into the events and it works!

love when i youtube search for certain things your videos come up first. and they aren't an hour long drag of doing a simple task

I like that you left the error in and fixed in front of us that was an adventure and great info (I got a good laugh because you teleported to the middle of nowhere been there before with other code :) ). thank you!

1:00 is peak music (i never heared that before in this channel clutch tutorials)

Thanks to you, I managed to create a VERY rudimentary save system on a map as I test play! By that, I mean it just saves and loads when I press O and P respectively. It also saves on Begin Play, so it seems to eat the save every time I change maps for now, but I AM still just learning this stuff. It's fascinating! Thanks very much for the insight!

Thank you so much for making these videos! I watched your other video tutorials as well and they really helped me learn UE5, please keep making more videos, it will continue to help many people!

Fantastic guide, was able to easily implement save games into my own project after watching this video, thanks for making it!

A video for saving bools would be amazing.

What about if your saving in a pause menu? How would you go about getting the BP_Save over to the event graph on the canvas?

You know the vibe when you hear that beat 😎

Is there any way you could make a tutorial video that covers the main menu (with options including credits, start new game, or resume recent save). My game is an open world roam and could you also include the pause menu (with a save and quit option, or resume game). I tried following other tutorials and they broke my game. Please, I am really hoping you could help me with this. 🙏

Thank you Gorka! As usual quick and smart

But it only works on one level, on the rest you just fly out of the level due to the previous save

Very useful tutorial. And also the first load was fun. :)

very useful, i used this method to save the highscore.

Do I have to cast to the save file? I tried using blueprint interfaces but that didn't work.

Great tutorial ! but I do have one question. I am making some sort of sandbox/survival game where you can place objects around, each different objects can have an infinite amount of themselves placed by the player. Is there a way to make a system that creates new variables for objects positions each time an object is placed ? thanks

Awesome! I was wondering if you could also make a tutorial, where the game would auto-save and you could load it from the main menu

Can you make a video how to add more save slots and show that in with UI and how I can also load the last level that the player was in?

Thanks! That really works fine. But still do not understand how will it work in real game? There should be millions of variables to save. 😮

Cool video thanks! In terms of hard drive, where this file will be saved in the disk in which folder etc? Also this will data will stay also once the game has been closed and reopened?

Hello dude your physical animation tutorial helped me i just wanna ask why ragdoll doesnt work with it if you know.

Hi! I created a point system in the GameInstance, with a TotalPoints (integer) variable. My question is: how can I save this automatically and load it back when I re-enter the game? Thanks!

Great tutorial! I just have a question: My game is multiplayer and when I save the game on the server side it saves for all clients too. Any idea how i can fix this?

Will this work with anything? For example your building system video and your rpg series' questing system? If i build something with that, can i use this system to save the progress technically?

Could you make a tutorial on how to save and load both the camera direction and player position while using a True First Person POV in UE5.2 or above?

thanks, it works.. but... position is saved between levels.. how can I fix it?

Hey I have made a pause menu using ur tutorial and have added a Save Button to it and would like to save using that button, how do i do that instead of using the 'R' Key in this tutorial the BP Save and Get Transform are showing 'ERROR' if I use 'on clicked' in the Save Button

So, why every variable in blueprint has SaveGame flag? I would expect, that there is a way how to simply save all variables.

That look much more easier than I think (I though my brain will eplode before watching this video)

Thanks for tut, can i asking then how can reset for those values back to default ? Do you have video explain about it ?

Hi there - So I have made a level, it's quite detailed - A store - I need to make it so that the scene can be 'walked around in' via a web link? How would I do this - Basically my client wants to walk around remotely from a web link - Thank you for your tutorials, they are fantastic!! :)

This really helped alot.... I am changing a static mesh postion in the level and saving its position. Other thing I'm trying to create is changing material of that static mesh inside the game by using Set material. Now I am trying to save its current material. How can i do that?

thanks again man

Great Video. Thanks for sharing. I have a question. How can I get it to auto load when I exit and come back to the game without pressing any buttons? (i.e would be loadout menu). Soldier selected rifle, extra mag, and a scope. how can I keep this selection when I load again.

Hi! How do you save system for Enviroment Actor and pawn controller. I am currently having problems thx.

Thank you for this great tutorial!

thank you for these videos i would like to know how can i access the slot i created , like if the player want to press create new game and i want to reset the slot to its default values which is stored in BP_Save , how can i do it?

hi can u make a video where saving progress do automatically in background means game saved without saving any key during gaming

Is it possible to make save slot beforehand so i don't check if it exist?

Awesome tutorial thanks

Hi, are the files after the game is packaged in a directory on disk C or even in the project file itself? If so which one? Or if not, would it be possible to do this?

how can we save the current level open too i have a game that house are different levels when you go in when i load i want it to open the level they saved in too

Excellent man 👍

Thanks for this! I created a save system I think is really fuckin cool but I’m curious how it will be usability wise, so far I’m only saving some stats but here’s basically how it works: First I added some basic stuff to a PlayerStatsComponent - Name, Combat Level, Current/Max HP, Stamina, Current/Max Combat Focus (will be the mana system it’ll build up to be spent in combat) I created an enum, EPlayerSkills, with that I populate with a list of skills. Then I made FPlayerSkills Struct which has an EPlayerSkills reference for the Skill ID, and then values like Level, MaxLevel, EXP etc) Then I made another Struct (FPlayerStats) which contains those basic variables I added to the component and an Array of FPlayerSkills Structs (also added that to the component) so the save game currently only has one object in it, stats. When the save game is created we loop through the number of entries in EPlayerSkills (-1 since it’s counting from 1) and add to the FPlayerSkills array an entry in the save using the index value to set the EPlayerSkills for that entry to the correct one, I got it saving and loading but man is it complicated to work with so far. I’ve managed an AddSkillXP which takes an EPlayerSkills and Integer input, breaks the characters current FPlayerStats, grabs the entry in the FPlayerSkills array at EPlayerSkills Input( to Byte then to Int), breaks that, adds the exp and saves. It works but idk how efficient it is code execution wise, for the small convenience of being able to add a skill and all its variables to the character save by adding an enumerator and naming the enumeration

how do u save stuff that is not from the actor, for example inventory/items in boxes?

Very good video. Thank you for sharing with us 😁😊

Does this work if you have multiple maps?

im getting the error The Property associated with (variable name) could not be found in (Blueprint Path)

When saving i get this error: Anyone knows a fix?? Blueprint Runtime Error: "Attempted to assign to None". Node: Set Player POS Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph BP Third Person Character Blueprint: BP_ThirdPersonCharacter

Thanks a lot

Hi Gorka, I followed your tutorial and it works but I always get an error: Accessed None trying to read property BPSave". Node: Set Actor Transform Graph: SavegameSystem Function: Execute Ubergraph BP Example Player Blueprint: BP_ExamplePlayer How come?

Thank you!

Will this save lives and coins rvt?

Thanks again. 🎉

Will this save items the player has on them?

how could i make it where the player can log into their own personal save

This writes to the disk right?

Does this work with map levels? Right now it will save all my items but not the map level

Will this also work for saving on Xbox or PS or its just for PC?

Help : When i start a new game , the game could be loaded from a save file of the older saves

Can you do one for lvls and appearances and inventory?

How can I save the camera rotation? Im using Get Player Camera Manager, and changing the world transform. I made the debug print text to read the player camera manager world transform. When I press the load file button, for one frame it changes to the previously stored BP_Save camera transform (which also reads the value when I pressed save), but after that the camera manager just resets back to the moment I pressed load. It reads the saved value but immediately updates to where my camera is currently facing.

I am on 5.2 and I just fall through. I am thinking they made some changes from this video perhaps. I get these errors. Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property BP Save". Node: Set PlayerPos Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph BP First Person Character Blueprint: BP_FirstPersonCharacter Blueprint Runtime Error: "Attempted to assign to None". Node: Set PlayerPos Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph BP First Person Character Blueprint: BP_FirstPersonCharacter Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property BP Save". Node: Set Actor Transform Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph BP First Person Character Blueprint: BP_FirstPersonCharacter

Create video. but not work (((( always fail to cast save fail

works for multiplayer?

Help! is that works if i did change the game and then turned off my pc, when i will open the game again, are these changes will be there too inside my project ? or everything will be gone at the zero point?, i asked that question because i wanna sell my game in steam ,and i wanna a save system that will save their progress inside the game

Very good. Thank you.

Спасибо! ты очень куртой!

can someone help my game loads out of bounds on different map if loading from different map

Bro how to make countinue button in main menu return us to the save

How can i make an save system, that saves the game and the level every 5 minutes? Like, it saves the game, and when you enter the game again, you will be in the same level you was before exiting.

how to connect this with new game button and load game button

I managed to save player position but I can the save the game level 😢 I tried other tutorials and it doesn't work, can anyone show me the blueprint nodes for saving the level in unreal 5? ❤

Hey Thanks for the Video, but I hope we dont really like hundreds of Variables to Save any Positions of our Characters, Inventory Slots or Stats… 😮

How to do it with Boolean?

cheers. but this don't work in a package build, anyone got pointers how to get this working in a package, is it something to do with game instance and also each variable needs to be set as a serilaised for savegame versible!? :)

My character still falls down endlessly after fixing that last bit

Hi all! I realized that the info position is kept if you change level (instead of appearing at the PlayerStart you will have an offset in the new level world which is on the way and on top of that the new position is not resetting when you stop and restart the simulation. I'm not sure how to savely but my player back to the PlayerStart now. Anyone encounter this issue?

bug in player pos

I just downloaded unreal and I am so consused 😐... It'd be awesome to se a starter course on that and maybe with c++

Can yall pls link the vid that he explains how to save other info other then location i will be fr thank full

I keep getting teleported to 0,0,0 when loading the level, tried everything i could, UE 5.2.1 edit: set a bind to delete save game, delete it then try again, that'll fix it

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it wasnt helpful

Thank you so much!!

I'm getting error The property associated with Player Pos could not be found in '/Game/ThirdPerson/Blueprints/BP_ThirdPersonCharacter.BP_ThirdPersonCharacter_C' The property associated with Player Pos could not be found in '/Game/ThirdPerson/Blueprints/BP_ThirdPersonCharacter.BP_ThirdPersonCharacter_C' [2449.84] Compile of BP_ThirdPersonCharacter failed. 2 Fatal Issue(s) 0 Warning(s) [in 533 ms] (/Game/ThirdPerson/Blueprints/BP_ThirdPersonCharacter.BP_ThirdPersonCharacter)

I followed that step-for-step and it didn't work at all. Why even post this garbage?

The SaveGame blueprint already made is "like a blueprint", but can anyone explain why it isn't? Are variables permanently stored in it through level changes, and loads or something?