I realize that there was a similar problem to this that was answered, but i want to be safe by asking this. I'm running extremely low on disk space and I'm thinking of buying games because of the upcoming Summer Sale, so I was wondering if I could just uninstall them, then reinstall them onto an external Storage. Thus I could save a lot of Gb and have an exclusive Storage for my games.
Steam – uninstall the Steam games but still have the save
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Best Answer
Some games will keep your save data in a separate folder such as your documents folder on your computer, which means you shouldn't lose the data in those cases when you uninstall.
I also believe the Steam Cloud feature sure work on most titles in terms of keeping your save data.
But as Ben said it's always recommended to manually find the save yourself and copy it just to be safe.