"I may actually type out the required steps one day.."

lol 8 years later, I should re-visit this guide and update it one day. I definitely don't use SyncToy anymore, SyncThing is the best!

It actually wouldn't hurt to do both the Game Save Manager and the other way. In case there was a weird one like you say Terraria did move it around a bit depending on what version you had so if you had automatic syncing of the database to a folder which got picked up by synctoy it wouldn't be a horrible idea.

Yea terraria's save location is in My Documents so it would have been covered by the synctoy method. Originally I made a post about NBA2K15 not being supported but I think it's not possible to the cloud saving which manages it for you.

I just think about allllll the random games we play. Like Vektor Wars, very few people own it, but it's going to be a year old soon and not supported. Doesn't matter how old a game is, someone else out there needs to manually submit the database update entries for them all and you basically become a slave to those database updates. It's a cool program though, they really are trying hard.

They don't even have a Rise of the Tomb Raider entry yet. I'm not saying your house is going to get struck by a meteor this week, but if it did, you wouldn't lose any of that 3D platforming progress :)

Yeah sure, recent titles won't be supported, sadly :(. I am not sure if the "average" gamer owns these titles though. Nevertheless, a lot of well-known indies are supported and I think it's still handy if you game is in the supported games list plus you don't know where are located your game saves. For example, terraria savegame is not located in steam folders, you can still search for the internet to help (and it's easy located in documents) but GSM manages it fine.

But SyncToy+DropBox is the ultimate form of Sync managing and I definitely keep your method from now on.

okay I've ruled Game Save Manager out. It's not good. Not even close to being equal to my method.

The very first thing I did was update the database the latest version and check the game compatibility list. 3769 games supported, and there are over 7200 games on Steam and a LOT of games are not on Steam, if we think about how old PC gaming is, there are far more than 10,000 games.

So then I started to think about some games I might want backed up. The very first thing I checked was Sébastien Loeb Rally EVO which came out 2 weeks ago. Not supported. Next I checked a few indie titles and I couldn't find any of them. A game like Locked-in syndrome, sure it's just a random indie game, but it's 1.5 months old and not supported. I bet you only 1% of indie games that come out on Steam would ever be supported.

Yes, you'r right. A power-user will take the advantage of your software for general purposes, but the average gamer (who owns a PC just for gaming) may be interested in GSM instead.
Anyway, thanks for sharing the tip, SyncToy is from now on in my essentials.

but in order for new games of yours to be supported, you need to download updates to it and whatnot. this is sort of a set-it-and-forget it method, plus you can backup other personal files like your spreadsheets, pictures, etc..

I recommend "Game Save Manager". User-friendly, fast, and the database is updated regulary.

no prob! :)

Thanks for the guide!