How saving works

Make and keep a manual save

There is no chapter select or post-story free roam. Once the route closes an area, an earlier manual save is your way back.

1. Interact with the save point when you reach a safe area.
2. Choose a separate manual slot before a major transition instead of overwriting your only earlier save.
3. At the graveyard, save in the church before the stealth route and in the shack after a clean outward journey.
4. Keep the first-shop save for the reported buy/sell trophy tracking issue, and keep a late save before the ending sequence.

Autosaves and recovery

Chases and puzzles can have gaps between checkpoints. A reload may place you before the start of the obstacle. Check the objective and timestamp on the save before choosing it.

Where your mode provides the final autosave, reload it to replay the apartment choice. Save-slot documentation does not prove identical checkpoint rules on every difficulty.

Hellraiser mode: community Save Token route

The Steam player guide describes a Hellraiser-difficulty run with normally no autosaves and a limited Save Token route. Its author shows eleven token locations or merchant purchases with screenshots. This is a player report, not an official rule table for every mode.

Its first three token stops are after the first knife enemy, in the locked container below a ladder with a save point above, and at Zora when first meeting her. The later guide lists the graveyard cabin safe and subsequent merchant visits. Use its screenshots to identify the pickup, and plan manual saves before difficult one-way sections.

The same author reports that Continue after the credits allowed the ending choice again even on Hellraiser mode. Treat that as a reported exception, not a promise that ordinary autosaves exist throughout that difficulty.

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