I played for hours on my PC yesterday with Cloud saves turned off on both the game and Steam. I uninstalled BG3 from the Deck before playing. Still no game saves visible on PC. Obviously they exist. I just can't find them. There is a data file in my BG3 folder, and there are files in it, but they are not game save files. I've got hidden files visible, so they should should show up. And it's weird that the Cloud for BG3 is full because a couple of weeks ago I deleted most of the saves from my computer, so the saves were there at one point. Also, I only have about 30 game saves left to load. Most peculiar.

The only game on my computer that does have saves in its folder is Morrowind, which has never been loaded onto my Steam Deck because it's not compatible. Every other game that I've played on Deck is experiencing the same issue, even though they have Cloud synced.

At any rate, I got through that brain puzzle in Moonrise down in the Illithid breeding ground without cheating and Thorn is now dust. I can play on my PC, but I was enjoying the freedom of not having to be in my study.

I decided to make a run for xp and loot back to the creche and pick off the rest of the Githyanki after getting the prisoners out of moonrise. Also hit the spider den to eliminate the Matriarch Glad her loot is just so-so, ended up knocking her into one of the irretrievable chasms. That's the only drawback to the Eldritch Blast/Repelling Blast. Love using it, but have lost a couple loot providers to the depths by not lining it up just right. I forget that it can be toggled. My Warlock/Ranger/Sorcerer is doing really well so far. Made short work of those early game Githyanki.

Next we go back for the gaunlet and then off to find the duke.

I shoved Balthazar off a ledge by mistake but it was ever so satisfying, especially as his loot is pretty lacklustre.

I've just arrived in the city outskirts and am preparing for the next phase of the game, which I'll be tackling this weekend.

Useful though my bard is, I'm thinking that next time I should have a more fight-centric character, because at the moment I use Lazael and Karlach together; at level 9 they're both beasts in combat. That leaves me with only one party slot to play with.

I have a monk build idling in the background that I may give a go after this run. Don't want to get too burned out though, not with Patch 8 due out sometime this year. So many new subclasses *insert anticipatory sigh*

We've cleaned up most all the extra XP we left behind in Act 1 and the start of Act 2. Now we're off to dispatch the rest of the prison guards in the Tower. Was hoping to level one more time before hitting the Duke and Thorm Quest, but I think I've almost maxed out the XP harvest with this character/class story line. On we go...

Cloud saves and local saves are stored in two different places on the PC. Maybe that's why you can't find the local saves. BG3 is the only game I know that does this.

Cloud saves are stored in this folder, which is only used when cloud sync is turned on: <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\1086940\remote

Local saves use this folder when cloud sync is off: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\

Thanks, GP, I'll check in the Larian folder. Although I think I may have already. Anyway, at least the saves are somewhere. I just want to find them my PC so I can back them up elsewhere and delete the cloud saves.

EDIT: Aha! There they are. Thank you! I had about 2,000 saves in there. I've deleted about 3/4 of them. Hopefully now my sync will work.