Saved Games

Formats to store game status for later resumption, or to preserve a record of moves/activities/outcomes in a game (in progress or completed).

Video/computer games

 * Baba Is You saved game
 * Borderlands save file
 * Civilization BIC saved game format
 * Crusader Kings (.ck3)
 * Emulators
 * Genecyst Backup RAM
 * Genecyst Save State
 * Genital Save State
 * KGen98 Save State
 * MBC2 battery save
 * MBC3 RTC save
 * Eye of the Beholder saved game
 * Faster than Light saved game
 * Infocom saved games
 * Master of Orion saved game
 * Minecraft player format
 * Minecraft world file
 * Nethack
 * PS1 saved game
 * Pirates: Quest for the Seas
 * Pirates game file
 * Pirates Player Profile
 * Punch-Out
 * Punch-Out Passwords (external link)
 * Quetzal (a possible save format for Z-machine and Glulx)
 * Rexx-Adventure saved game
 * SimCity 2000 saved city
 * SimTower saved game
 * subo (Sudoku format)
 * Zelda Solarus DX saved game
 * Zig Zag Ancient Greeks
 * ZZT (save game format is same as the world format)

Board and card games
Not all of these are electronic.


 * Bridge
 * Bridge notation
 * Portable Bridge Notation
 * Richard's Bridge Notation
 * Checkers / Draughts
 * Portable Draughts Notation
 * Chess
 * FEN
 * Funny notation
 * PGN
 * PGNPack
 * Go
 * Smart Game Format (SGF)
 * UGF
 * Other games / multiple games
 * Smart Game Format (SGF)

Computer simulations, etc.

 * Biogenesis world‎
 * Life 1.05
 * Life 1.06
 * Macrocell
 * MCell
 * Plaintext (cellular automata)
 * RLE (cellular automata)
 * Small Object Format

Score files

 * atc_score
 * atomix.scores
 * Gnome Mahjongg history
 * Minecraft scoreboard format
 * xbill.scores

Other

 * Gniall

See also: Game data files and Interactive Fiction for files containing the game levels, graphics, and other such data.

Links

 * Keen Dreams cheat program (modifies saved games to add lives, shots)