Cult of the Lamb – Fix for Not Being Able to Load Saves

An existing bug in Cult of the Lamb can block the player from selecting a save file, effectively locking them out of the game. The absolutely wonderful folks over on the Discord server have found a fix for this! I didn’t discover this, the user Sciguystfm posted this fix in the server, and I decided to put it here in case more people are looking for it.

Not Being Able to Load Saves Fix

You’ll know you’re effected by this if you see a red hat to the left of all three save slots, and you’re not able to load your save or delete existing ones.

First and foremost, this fix only works if your save file itself isn’t corrupted.

The save file itself can be found at:

• C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Massive Monster\Cult Of The Lamb\saves

Typically it’ll be called slot_0

Easiest way to test whether or not your save is corrupted is to upload your save file to this site. If it tries to download a file back, it means you’re lucky and your save is probably fine.

If that’s the case, the next step is to disable steam cloud saves.

You can do that by right clicking the game in your steam library, selecting properties, and unticking the check mark labeled “Keep game saves in the Steam Cloud for Cult of the Lamb.

After that, navigate back to:

• C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Massive Monster\Cult Of The Lamb\

And copy that entire folder somewhere else for savekeeping as backup.

From there, all you need to do is delete the meta_0 file in the folder:

• C:\Users\stefa\AppData\LocalLow\Massive Monster\Cult Of The Lamb\saves

And you should be good to go!

If that works, you’ll want to turn steam cloud saves back on. To do that:

• Launch the game, hop on your cult, save and quit.
• Go back to that right click menu, then Preferences, and then re-check that box you unchecked previously
• When you relaunch the game, steam should yell at you about conflicting saves, simply choose the “Local Save” and you should be good to go!

If Your Save Is Corrupted

You might be able to pull an older save from steam’s cloud save history, but i don’t have personal experience with that:

• https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

Note

As with anything save-related, it’s always a good idea to make a copy of your save files in case anything goes wrong (you can do this just by copy/pasting them into another folder).