[2023] Missing save game files (GOG, cloud saves)

Thiago Baptista said: I opened the save game folder in Windows Explorer at %HOME%/Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/save games and, indeed, the folder was empty?

That is expected as only local saves are written there.

Under Steam a local cache of cloud saves is written here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\\281990\remote\save games\

I'm not familiar with how GoG does these things but I'd assume they have a similar location, you may need to contact them if you can't find it. Perhaps a search for *.sav files would find them?  

Thiago Baptista said: Just to clarify something: there WERE files in that folder before. I tried restoring them through the operating system (an option under the context menu in Windows Explorer), but the last backup was from three weeks ago.

There's certainly nothing in the game that deliberately deletes saves from anywhere. So i cannot explain what happened to those save files.

Thiago Baptista said: Are you from Paradox Support? Like, an official representative? How come you "are not familiar" with it?

I am, yes, that's what Paradox Support Rep means. That doesn't mean I have personal access to every game I support on every one of the numerous platforms we sell on, GoG included. I do have channels I can get information from if needed of course.

Thiago Baptista said: , I've already looked it up and it seems Paradox did not implement cloud saves for the GOG version, even though the option is enabled in-game.

On Steam the cloud that games are stored on is Steam's , not Paradox's. Can I ask where you looked up that there are no cloud saves on the GoG version? Then I can ask better questions backstage.

Thiago Baptista said: Does this information proceed?

Sorry, I don't understand this question. Can you rephrase for me please?  

I see, I was unaware of that.

I guess this should be logged as a bug, even though I suppose it is more of a design or missing feature issue. Are you okay to do that in Bug Reports here?