Horizon Forbidden West is a massive game with multiple skill trees, weapons, and lots of different areas to explore. Since players can expect to spend dozens of hours completing story missions and side objectives, learning how to save their game progress is a must. Losing precious game date is not fun for anyone, so here's a guide on how to auto-save and manually save in Horizon Forbidden West.
When players start up Horizon Forbidden West for the first time, the in-game tutorial will point out that the game will auto-save at important moments. This can happen when missions are completed or when certain events take place. The thing is, Forbidden West players won't be able to manually save until they get through the opening act, and head west (after the opening credits showing Aloy riding a machine across various environments). Once players begin the main mission called "To the Brink," they'll be taken down a cable car with an NPC named Karhn.
How to Save in Horizon Forbidden West
After players get off the cable car and watch the cutscene with Vuadis and Joruf, Aloy will be free to continue the path and players will see the first Campfire in the game. This is what players need to interact with in order to manually save their game, or perform a Quick Save.
Quick Save will overwrite the current save file and will bring players back to that exact moment if they choose to close the game out and continue the game. Players can use the manual save option if they want to have multiple save files for loading up different points of Horizon Forbidden West. Sometimes open-world RPG players will have many save files, just in case they want to start from a specific location or if they want to see the outcome of a story decision. For those that only want one save file and don't care about stuff like that, quick saving works perfectly fine.
Horizon Forbidden West players can also make use of a Campfire to fast travel for free without using a Fast Travel Pack, which needs to be crafted with a few materials.
If players want to know when the game last auto-saved, they can pull up the menu and choose load saved game and it will show all the recent saves, and the exact time of the auto-save.
Horizon Forbidden West is out now for PS4 and PS5.
