I don't think so, Mad. Every time I exit, it says something like, "Really? You want to exit? Do you realize everything you've done will not be saved?" Or some variant on that encouraging news. That is why I leave it running for at least 15 minutes after I am done playing, so the autosave hopefully will be triggered.

Well I would welcome an auto save on quitting - as it would become the latest save to reload from when re-launching the game

Check the ***old Vanishing of Ethan Carter thread from last year*** for tips on what triggers saves.

Or from Timo's suggestion ***here***

I told my husband (30-year gamer, too) about this whole Save thing and he said something along the lines of how ridiculous it was to inflict this on players, and no way would it have taken "two months of programming time" to include a manual Save. We'll never know what was in the minds of these game developers, but hopefully, they have heard the user reaction loud and clear.

AS a 30 year gamer he surely must remember that lots of older games were set up this way and if anyone plays any DarkSide games it's a pretty common feature. I hate it personally but it's not that unusual.

Ana

That's kinda what he said, Ana. "This sounds like a really old game, not one of the new ones. They don't usually throw %#@!!% like that in good games." There were a few other phrases not suitable to be in print here...

I just went back for the THIRD time to do the Traps (or was it the fourth time? LOL). This time, I did find the little note from Ethan, so I actually completed this test at long last. I closed the game and opened it again, just to see, and it did have me standing there at the campfire/tree, not back down by the dam again. Whew! Now all I have to do is run all the way back to the dam again, and try to find SOMETHING that will make the game save there, so I don't have to keep running back and forth.

(BTW, I bought the game from GOG in mid-September of 2015, and it included a "Patch," so I assume it was the latest version with the latest patches for this save-game stuff...)

I'm slowly making progress with the game and I do like it but the silly messing about to get a "practical" save is a real "downer"

I simply don't always have time for a long playing session and it's certainly not my thing to leave my computer running unattended for hours on end solely because I can't make a save in a game.
[A waste of electricity and bad for the planet !! ]

Hopefully, any future games from this developer (and I'll certainly be interested in any) will offer a better save system

Finally I've had the time to play the END scene of this MASTERPIECE.


I've said a lot of positive things about the journey to the Valley already.


But so that no one misses the pleasure of gettin this game I MUST

S A L U T E IT

(all this .... about the save feature DO NOT LET IT STOP YOU, because it's really not an issue)

CHEERS

I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed the game so much.

I loved it too, glad you enjoyed it!

I found the lack of Save-on-Demand to be pretty coercive on the designer's part. It is not my idea of fun to be forced to play a game the way someone else has decided it should be played rather than the way I would like to parcel it out. Most of us like/need to save when and where we want because the real world intrudes at will and often cannot be denied.

I did get through the first two challenges (the bomb traps and the murder), after repeating those sections multiple times. I am ready to go on to town now. I already explored the town and around the hill before, but of course, am back at the railroad tracks again because I could not figure out what I was supposed to do to "solve" that section. So I will have to do it all again ~ and figure out what I have to do to finish the next scene ~ or else repeat it all for a third time later. I am daunted by that thought, so I have not gone back to the game in almost two months. I'm not sure at this point if I ever will.

I took a chance and bought Ethan Carter, and do love the game play, the movement, the superb graphics, the concept! It is very involving. Still, I would not knowingly purchase another game with this type of rigidity built into it. Just my two cents.

It really is an issue. It's the issue that made me bin the game.

It's an issue for me, too, although I haven't binned the game .... yet

I just don't have the time to mess about with the savings stuff

It's an issue for me, too. I wouldn't even buy it.