I might be able to restore to a version of my game that was mere sim hours before the problem occurred that caused me to want or need to restore my game from the back-up. If something happens to my saved game, I will probably only lose one day of progress with this method, but the game automatically keeps up to five earlier versions of every single saved game! If I wanted to restore my game from an automatic back-up, I could prevent losing an entire sim day.

I always make a lot of save game files because I’ve lost sims in earlier versions of the game (The Sims 3 was the worst offender for corrupted saved games and it scarred me), so I generally make a new save for each day in my game. I highlighted some files to show how you can identify the relevant files if you ever need to “roll back” your saved game, or restore your game from an automatic back-up. This is a screenshot from my Saves folder.

When you look inside your Saves folder, you’ll see a folder called “scratch” and another called “SerialGUID” followed by a list of files resembling the screenshot displayed below. Automatic back-ups are stored in your Documents > Electronic Arts > Sims 4 > Saves folder. I recommend you read and follow the steps outlined in that post, but now I can share with you how to restore your saved game from a manual or automatic back-up.Ī manual back-up of your saved games is what I described in the Technical Preparedness Plan (a copy of the saved game files that you make intentionally and store in another location), while an automatic back-up is one created by the game whenever you save your game during gameplay. I recently shared my Sims 4 Technical Preparedness Plan with readers, which explains how to make complete back-ups of your game files and generally take precautions to avoid losing your progress or sims.

Sims 4 saves folder