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Can You Have Multiple Saves in Baldur’s Gate 3?

Baldur’s Gate 3 does a good job of autosaving your game almost every time you do anything. Talking to an NPC, starting a fight, ending a fight, almost every dice roll ends with an autosave. While this is well and good for making sure you never lose any progress, there are times you might want to see what could have happened if you picked another dialogue option. That’s when having the ability to make multiple saves at different points comes into play. Being able to have multiple saves at a time is something we take for granted, as many players of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League discovered. Let’s go over if Baldur’s Gate 3 lets you have multiple saves and how you can do it.

Will Baldur’s Gate 3 Let You Have Multiple Saves?

Yes, you can have multiple saves and different playthroughs with multiple saves. So save-scam your way through any dice roll or combat encounter with glee, or just go back and see what happens if you kill that NPC. This can come in handy when doing a difficult encounter such as Necromancy of Thay book where you have multiple options with vastly different outcomes.

Another key point is that you can have multiple saves for different playthroughs. So if some of your friends are not regularly available for your Baldur’s Gate 3 sessions, you can start a new playthrough with a different group and no worry about losing your progress for either session.

How To Have Separate Saves

Having multiple saves is quite simple in Baldur’s Gate 3, all you need to do is go and make a manual save instead of letting Autosave handle your saves for you. Simply go into your pause menu and select the save game option. You will be prompted to either overwrite a previous save or make a brand-new one.

When you go to make a new save, it will use the name of the current autosave file you are on, so you will want to change the name in some way so it doesn’t overwrite your current save. You will probably want to use a name that will help you identify the moment the save is for. That way you can separate this save from all the others you might have.

With that, you can experience all Baldur’s Gate 3 has to offer without worry of losing any progress, simply make a new save whenever you want to hop between them all as you see fit. If you plan on making a save before every meaningful decision in the game, you had better be ready to have quite a long list of saves. You can also just keep one or two around as backups in case you find yourself going down a path you don’t want to be on.