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Ludusavi

Ludusavi is a game save backup program, available on Windows and Linux: command-line use.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Ludusavi is a game save backup program, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: command-line use.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Back up your PC video game save data” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Both a graphical interface and command line interface for scripting.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Ludusavi is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Ludusavi is a tool for backing up your PC video game save data, written in Rust. It is cross-platform and supports multiple game stores. Features: Ability to back up data from more than 19,000 games plus your own custom entries. Backup and restore for Steam as well as other game libraries. Preview of the backup/restore before actually performing it. Both a graphical interface and command line interface for scripting. (NOTE: CLI is named "com.github.mtkennerly.ludusavi" for Flatpak) Tab completion is available for Bash, Fish, Zsh, PowerShell, and Elvish. Support for saves that are stored as files and in the Windows registry, Proton saves with Steam, and Steam screenshots.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from LicitPro automatic classification () —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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