Cyberpunk saves get large and long-lived, and a game update that invalidates your mod list can leave a fifty-hour V unloadable. Checkpoint64 backs up the save folder automatically and keeps every version, so a broken load — or a story commitment you want back — is a Restore rather than a restart.
Where Cyberpunk 2077 saves live
%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\CD Projekt Red\Cyberpunk 2077That's a user-profile folder, not the AppData location most Windows games use, so it's easy to miss if you go hunting by hand. Each save is a folder — the .dat payload, its metadata, and the screenshot the load menu shows — which is why the folder is the unit worth backing up, not one file out of it. Cyberpunk writes only to Windows in the app's game catalog, so this one folder is the whole picture.
Patches and mods on a long playthrough
A Cyberpunk save carries references to what was loaded when it was written. That's fine until an update lands and your mod list no longer matches — then a save can fail to load outright, or load with pieces missing in ways that only surface an hour later. It's the ordinary shape of a save that breaks after the fact, and long modded playthroughs meet it more often than short ones.
Restoring a version from before the update puts the save back alongside the setup that wrote it, which is the difference between a bad evening and a lost character.
Points of no return
The game tells you when a decision is about to close doors. It doesn't give you a way back through them. A version taken shortly before the commitment costs nothing and turns "I want to see the other branch" into a one-click restore instead of a second playthrough.
How Checkpoint64 backs up Cyberpunk 2077
- Pick Cyberpunk 2077. The Saved Games path is already known.
- Turn on auto-backup. Every 60 seconds it checks for a changed save folder and uploads a new version, sending only what changed.
- Restore in one click. Open Versions, pick a version from before the patch or the decision, and Restore.