Anime Shop Simulator Save File Location & Cloud Saves

Where are the save files?

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\OneMoreTime\Anime Shop Simulator\

Paste that into the address bar of File Explorer. Inside:

The folder is listed on PCGamingWiki and matches the path a player posted in the Steam forums’ broken-save thread. The .es3 files are plain JSON text, not encrypted.

Does Anime Shop Simulator have Steam Cloud?

The Steam store page lists Steam Cloud, but saves are not syncing as of September 14. Players on the forums tried moving between a desktop PC, a Steam Deck and a Steam Machine and found no saves on the second device. PCGamingWiki also marks Steam Cloud as not working. The developer has not commented yet.

Until it is fixed you have two options:

• Copy the folder above to the other PC by hand.
• Stream the game from the PC that has the save using Steam Remote Play, as players on the forums suggest.

Back up before every patch

Two hotfixes shipped in the first three days, and players have reported saves breaking after updates. One player lost a single save worth more than 10 hours that now kicks them out on load. Another said the small overnight fix for the survey link broke their save. Before a patch downloads, copy the whole folder somewhere safe.

Repairing a save that won’t load

A player posted a repair on the Steam forums on September 13, and at least one other player confirmed it worked. The symptoms are that a save will not load or kicks you back to the menu, or that you can load in but cannot aim at shelves, pick up items or place products. The reported cause is an object that flew far outside the game world and is still being tracked.

In short:

1. Close the game completely.
2. Open the save folder above and copy your save file somewhere safe first.
3. Open the save (for example 0_save.es3) in Notepad.
4. Search for "orders" and look at the Position values. The thread gives normal ranges of roughly x -1 to 10, y -0.3 to 5 and z -11 to 11, varying with shop size. An entry with a huge number is the runaway object.
5. Remove that entry, save the file and start the game.

It’s a community fix, not an official one. Editing the file wrong can make things worse, which is why the backup comes first. A player who used it later hit a crash on opening the store, which turned out to be the separate employee crash; see crashes and known issues.

Moving a playtest save to the full game

A community guide on Steam, written in Russian and titled “How to transfer saves from the Playtest to the main game”, walks through finding the playtest’s folder under the same AppData\LocalLow path and copying it across. The playtest ran on a separate Steam app (3444060). It’s unofficial, so keep a copy of both folders.

We don’t cover editing money or items into a save. See the about page for why.