HUMANKIND Save File Location on Windows 10 (Steam)

Don't cheat with it though

HUMANKIND just got released on Steam and has been developed by AMPLITUDE Studios. You might know them by some of their games such as Endless Legend and Endless Space. The game is a historical strategy game that allows you to dictate how humankind is to live and evolve. This game will allow you to not just define the world but society itself. It has gotten a lot of positive reviews and has been rated 9/10 by IGN. This guide will tell you where you can find the HUMANKIND save file.

This guide is for those players that still want the save file even though the game supports Steam Cloud Saves. This means that even if you lose your save file locally, Steam still has a backup of it for you. We just hope you won’t do anything mischievous with the savefile.

HUMANKIND Save File Location

So if you don’t believe in Steam for protecting your save file, then you can follow this article to locate it. You might require your savefile to move it to another PC or to completely erase it if there should arise an occurrence of corruption. Whatever the need, you can follow the steps underneath to find the savefile.

  • Open File Explorer. You can open it by searching “File Explorer” in the Start menu. It’s also usually pinned to your Taskbar.
screenshot for file explorer for Humankind save file location
  • Go to the disk on which you have installed Windows. Usually your C: Drive.
  • Go to the Users folder and then click the folder that has your Windows username.
  • Select the AppData folder. This folder will be hidden so click on View, and enable Hidden items.
  • Inside here, head into the LocalLow folder and then the AMPLITUDE Studios folder.
  • You will find a folder callled Humankind which will have your savefile.

You can also directly paste the following URL in File Explorer to get to your save file.

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\AMPLITUDE Studios\Humankind

All Done

Now that you have your savefile, you can keep it safe with you and regularly back it up whenever you play the game (of course, you could just let Steam do the work though). Let us know in the comments below if this guide helped you to find your savefile. You can read our other guides here: