Gothic Remake: This tip can save players five hours of playtime – or more

Fans have waited so long for the remake of Gothic that some have apparently forgotten what it still is at its core: a 20-year-old role-playing game in a much prettier guise. That also means some mechanics do not work the way players may be used to from modern RPGs – saving included. While current role-playing games such as Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3 largely handle saving automatically, Gothic still requires manual saves – even in the remake. Anyone who forgets to save loses all progress made since the last save point after dying. One player has now learned this lesson the hard way. As u/JI00R shows on Reddit, he met a digital death – and had last saved five hours earlier. “Yeah, nobody warned me about that,” writes the Redditor.

The community reacted with a mixture of understanding and schadenfreude. Many users commented that they had gone through similar experiences themselves – and that this is simply part of the classic Gothic experience. Some Redditors likely rubbed their hands together with malicious glee while reading the post. One of the top comments in the thread reads: “For anyone who has been playing RPGs for the last two and a half decades, this is a given [...] you can learn this lesson as many times as you want, but once should be enough.” For new players, however, it still cannot hurt to know this in advance – after all, time is limited and five lost hours hurt.

The most important tip for new Gothic players

For veterans, saving regularly is practically part of the gameplay loop. Exactly when players save is less important. Some create a new save after every victorious battle, while others save after every conversation with an important NPC. What matters most is establishing a fixed save routine.