How to delete the XCom Saves

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So first a confession: I was playing iron man, but I would cheat in that at the beginning of every month I would make a backup of the game. Then near the end of the month I would restore the game, or re-save depending how I did for the month.

In doing all this I totally messed up my save menu. Half the games will not load anymore, because the file is not there anymore. But more importantly is that I can't delete the games from the in-game menu. When I try to delete it just goes back to the top of the list.

My concern is I saw a youtube video about if you have too many saves the game will no longer save.

Any thoughts on how I can fix this issue, short of a re-install?

Best Answer

The XCOM saves are kept in:

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\My Games\XCOM - Enemy Unknown\XComGame\SaveData

So, I would assume that deleting all of the save files in that folder would delete all your save games. But make a backup of the folder in case so you can put it back to how it was if it doesn't work.