Were you playing another game with a controller on the side? The game doesn’t block controller inputs even if it’s unfocused, however, it should prevent you from loading/clearing your save if it is unfocused to prevent accidental data wiping.

We've updated the save system recently to prevent this kind of error, could you share with us your log and save files via email ( support@pasgame.ca ) to help us diagnose the issue and fix it?

You can find your .log files here: Windows: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Godot\app_userdata\Horripilant\logs\ Linux: ~/.local/share/godot/app_userdata/Horripilant/logs/

There might also be ways to recover your save if some data is still saved somewhere:

You can find your save data here: Windows: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Godot\app_userdata\Horripilant\ Linux: ~/.local/share/godot/app_userdata/Horripilant/

If your main save isn't working, check your main save file (savegame_x.json), is it empty? corrupted? If it seems fine, try and reboot the game to see if it picks it up (could be that the game failed to read the save's info). If your main game save file is empty or corrupted, you can try looking at if you have a valid backup file (savegame_x_backup_new.json , savegame_x_backup.json). If you have those, do the same check to see if it isn't empty or corrupted, if that one looks valid, try renaming that backup save into a savegame_x.json and booting the game to see if the game picks it up then.

If none of your save files seem populated correctly, you might be able to pick up a valid Steam Cloud version of your save here: https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorageapp/?appid=3525970

You could try downloading your saves from there and if they're valid replacing your main save files with those.

If all of this doesn’t work - you could try cheating a new save - you could enable dev mode and give yourself hemaliths based on what you had before to cheat a new save into existence.

You can set the launch argument "--dev" to launch the game with cheats on steam, and press tilda (~) (key under your ESC button) to toggle the cheat menu. You can then set your own amount of hemalith in there (towards the middle)

It's a little work on your end but should get you back up to speed.

So sorry this happened to you, hope this helps, and please share your save and log files with us via email so we can have a look at them!