State of Decay 2: How to Import or Backup Your Steam & Microsoft Saves

As always, make sure to always make a copy of files you edit/move.

You’ll get to keep your community
You will lose your legacy survivor pool (if you finished the game already)
You might lose Bounty Broker progress towards an unfinished Bounty

C:\Users\[YourUsernameHere]\AppData\Local\Packages\
Microsoft.Dayton_8wekyb3d8bbwe\SystemAppData\wgs\[lotsofnumbers]\[lotsofnumbers2]

The largest file is your save, and biggest community

C:\Users\[YourUsernamehere]\AppData\Local\StateOfDecay2\Saved\SaveGames\[lotsofnumbers]\Release\v2

On the steam version you have SaveGame0.sav, SaveGame1.sav, SaveGame2.sav
For the first, second and third community slot.

When transferring from Microsoft to steam, don’t forget to fully rename the files, including the “.sav” file type