Blue Prince is the second highest-reviewed recreation of 2025 and now gamers on PlayStation 5 can lastly plumb the depths of its deepest secrets and techniques with out worrying a couple of gnarly game-breaking bug corrupting their save recordsdata. After weeks of tragically ensnaring a number of the puzzle journey’s greatest followers, a brand new patch fixes the difficulty alongside implementing a nerf for an infinite merchandise exploit.
“This situation was attributable to a duplication of save information inflicting new save info to day trip and never be saved,” the sport’s developer, Tonda Ros, posted on Steam. “This downside has now been addressed and gamers shouldn’t have any points progressing and saving the sport previous the purpose the place the bug was initially encountered.”
Blue Prince is about exploring a mansion the place, in the beginning of every new day, you select which room comes subsequent from a rising deck of playing cards as you search to find a lacking forty sixth room. Fixing puzzles and uncovering clues on this roguelite construction finally offers strategy to some large mysteries and many backstory, with some gamers spending over 100 hours navigating the deepest layers of its esoteric labyrinth.
However on PS5, a few of these gamers have been hitting a save bug lengthy earlier than their time within the mansion felt full. The Blue Prince subreddit is littered with horror tales of people that fell down the rabbit gap solely to see all of their progress erased. Most gamers have been hit someplace between day 90 and 150.
“I play this surprise of a recreation on PS5, and after 117 days, I had the horror of discovering my save is locked on day 117, I hold enjoying for hours and saving however once I depart the sport, I’m again to that day 117,” one wrote. “I’ve lastly reached the true ps5 endgame,” wrote one other. “Save file bug.”
The excellent news is that these save recordsdata ought to now work, assuming gamers didn’t restart or delete them. “We’ve labored tirelessly with Sony to keep away from any save recordsdata being misplaced as soon as the sport patches,” Ros wrote. “Nevertheless, content material that was not saved throughout the Rollback Concern has sadly been misplaced. Gamers ought to have the ability to return to Mount Holly on the level the place they encountered the bug.”
It’s nonetheless a serious bummer for everybody who was affected, particularly since Blue Prince is just not the very best recreation for returning to weeks later after you’ve entered a totally totally different headspace. In the present day’s patch makes a good variety of different adjustments as effectively, most of that are redacted for spoiler causes.
Two issues gamers have additionally observed, nonetheless, are fixes to the Visitor Bed room exploit which gamers might use to load up on objects, and to the Nurse Station buff gamers have been manipulating to achieve additional steps. It seems even Blue Prince isn’t proof against busted builds getting nerfed.
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