Ever wondered what it feels like to build a car and maintain it all on your own? Well, then My Summer Car is here to help you experience all of it. The game was released back in 2016 but in early access. In Jan 2025, it saw its full version release, and player numbers have hit a new high. With the game’s popularity growing and it being an early access game for such a long time, you might be thinking that the game is free from issues. Well, that’s only a dream. As more players are trying the game out, the influx of bug reports has been huge. That said, if you are encountering an issue in the game where it doesn’t detect your saved progress, consider reading this guide, as we have shared all the details regarding the same.
Imagine: you play a single-player game, spend countless hours on it, progressing the story, purchasing upgrades, and the like. But one day, when you launch the game, the continue button that is supposed to get you back to your last saved progress no longer exists. You can only start a new game now. All those hours; simply gone. This is something no one wants to experience. But if you are in My Summer Car, continue reading.
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My Summer Car Game Not Detecting Save: How to fix it
If you didn’t already know, My Summer Car is a survival game. And it is not like any survival game. It comes with the permadeath feature, which means that once you die, there’s no going back to a previous checkpoint and starting again. You will have to go back to the beginning and restart your journey. This is only when the permadeath mode is turned on. So, if you have died in the game and then found that permadeath was turned on, then unfortunately, the save is gone. Apart from this, there is also the possibility that the saved file is corrupted, which is why the game is unable to detect it. So, how to get rid of this problem?
Whether you have died with permadeath mode turned on, which resulted in the saved file getting deleted, or the file is corrupted itself, you can in fact restore it using a backup. Where is the backup located? Well, to access it, first, open the File Explorer on your PC and then go to the C drive. Here, open the Users folder and then open the folder with your username. Now, go to AppData>LocalLow>Amistech folder. In this folder, you should find the saved files. Here, remove or rename the defaultES2file.txt file to something else. Now, find a backup save with the .bak extension. All backups have .bak extension. What you need to do now is rename the backup file as defaultES2file.txt (make sure .txt is the file type and not .bak). Once done, you should get your in-game progress back.
So, this is how you can fix the save file not detecting issue in My Summer Car. If you find this guide informative, consider visiting Android Gram for more such interesting reads.
