On Windows, the over the hill save file location is Documents\My Games\over the hill, and this was confirmed during the June 2026 demo. Save data and your in-game camera photos sit in that same root directory rather than in separate folders. On Steam Deck the demo runs through Proton, so the files live under a compatibility data path instead. Individual save file names, the photo subfolder name and the full-game equivalents are 待确认.
One thing to get right immediately: use the Documents path as Windows displays it for you, not a hardcoded drive letter. The folder can be redirected to another drive or a cloud-synced location, so C:\Users\Name\Documents is an assumption rather than a fact.
The Windows path, precisely
The recorded demo path is Documents\My Games\over the hill. The My Games parent folder is created by the game, and the over the hill folder inside it is the one that matters. Inside that root you will find save data and in-game photos together.
The demo's save data sits in the same root directory as the in-game photos. — recorded from the June 2026 demo build
The practical instruction is to open your Documents folder through Windows itself rather than typing a path from memory. File Explorer, or the Documents entry in a quick-access menu, resolves whatever redirection is active on your machine. If you have moved Documents to a second drive or to a synced folder, the game writes there too and a typed-in C: path will simply be empty.
Because the developers have not published the individual file names, the folder is best understood as a unit. There is no officially documented save slot, no named profile file and no stated purpose for any single file inside. Anyone claiming a specific file is "the" save is going beyond what the material supports.
The Steam Deck path, and its one trap
The Steam Deck demo runs through Proton, so the saves are inside the Proton compatibility prefix rather than a normal Linux path. The recorded location is ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/4703940/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Documents/My Games/over the hill/.
Two things about that path are worth stating plainly. First, 4703940 is the demo's app number. The full game's compatdata prefix is 待确认, and swapping in a different number is an unverified workaround that this page will not recommend. Second, the path starts with .steam, so it is hidden in Desktop Mode and you must show hidden files before it appears at all.
The demo's Proton prefix is
compatdata/4703940; the full game's prefix is unconfirmed. — recorded from the Steam Deck demo session
For Linux desktop users outside the Deck, the community wiki records saves under the Steam Play compatibility directory using app ID 2929250 at steamapps/compatdata/2929250/pfx/. That is a different number from the Deck demo prefix, and the reason is exactly the distinction above: the demo and the release are separate applications.
In-game photos share the save folder
The in-game camera is a documented feature, and in the demo its output lands in the same Documents\My Games\over the hill root directory as the save data. That is a confirmed location. What is not confirmed is the photo subfolder name inside that root, so you should expect to identify it by looking rather than by typing a documented name.
This matters for backup planning because a whole-folder copy captures photos and saves in one operation. It also means a photo problem and a save problem can look like one problem, since neither is separable by folder alone.
Steam screenshots are stored separately
The Steam screenshot hotkey does not write into the game folder. Those captures go to Steam's own screenshot library, and they are separate files from the in-game camera photos.
In-game camera photos and Steam screenshots are separate files in separate places. — recorded distinction
Treating the two as interchangeable is the common mistake here. Restoring a backup of the Documents folder will not restore Steam screenshots, and a full game reinstall does not touch save data in either location. If you care about both, back them up on separate schedules.
Backing up in a way you can rely on
The backup guidance here is the reference site's own procedure, and it is straightforward enough to follow exactly. Copy the entire over the hill folder rather than individual files. Quit the game before you copy, so nothing is mid-write when the copy runs. Name the copy with the date and the build context so an old snapshot is not mistaken for a current one. And confirm the copy actually finished before you start depending on it.
Those four steps are not bureaucratic. Partial copies of a live save folder are the failure mode that produces a corrupt-looking restore much later, and a backup whose completeness was never verified is not a backup at all.
When the folder is not where you expect
Work through this in order. Confirm your Windows version and hardware details first, since a mismatch there can explain a genuinely different layout. Then open Documents through Windows and check whether the My Games folder exists at all — an empty or absent folder suggests the game has not written a profile yet. Next, use the game's own search or file-viewing features if it has any, since a save may be written only after you have played a little. Finally, check whether your system is redirecting Documents to a different drive or a cloud location.
On Steam Deck, the equivalent check starts with hidden files being visible in Desktop Mode. If the .steam folder cannot be seen, nothing under it can be found, and the path is correct even when the search comes up empty.
What Steam Cloud covers
Save data is handled through Steam Cloud and Xbox Cloud, and both are listed among the game's features. What is 待确认 is the scope: whether cloud sync covers save data, in-game photos, or both. The conflict-resolution flow when two machines sync the same save is also unstated, as is whether Demo saves can be carried into the full game at all.
That last one is the gap most likely to matter on launch day. Copying your demo progress across is a natural idea, and it is not a documented procedure. Treat it as something to check after release rather than plan around.
What remains unknown before release
The official full-game save location on Windows is 待确认, as is the full-game Steam Deck prefix. Individual save file names and the in-game photo subfolder name are unpublished, and so is the purpose of each file in the folder. Steam Cloud coverage of saves versus photos, cloud conflict resolution, and Demo-to-full-game save transfer are all unstated.
What is confirmed is the shape of the answer: one folder, holding both save data and in-game photos, reachable through the Windows Documents path or the Proton prefix depending on your platform. Everything past that shape needs the release build.