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Recommended reading One of the most infuriating little things about playing games in 2025: When the quality-of-life update fixes that one problem right after you finish a game Stalker Trilogy fixes the issue that made me melt my PC with infinite quicksaves and repairs the blurry textures that have blighted players for months It's 2025 and we still can't decide on a universal input for crouching Everything that grinds our gears about PC gaming in 2025 I'm sick to death of PC gaming's endless launchers We deserve better than the boring carry capacity systems 90% of RPGs give us, but games like Death Stranding 2 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show the way forward These 7 games need a remaster, and they need it now It's 2025 and saving in absolutely every game still sucks Joshua Wolens 8 August 2025 This is definitely the number one thing to get mad about right now. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Valve) There are many, many things that professional game development could take from mods: better UIs, cooler weapons, what if everyone was naked all the time. But the one that most sticks out to me—that I think almost every single game could learn from and that I am baffled they still haven't—is IStewieAI's Auto-Save Manager (ASM) for Fallout: New Vegas. It rules. Its options are numerous and robust. In place of a ho-hum, standard autosave that updates and overwrites itself whenever you enter a new cell, ASM lets you get weird with it. Pictured: the future. (Image credit: IStewieAI on Nexus Mods) Want to autosave every X amount of seconds? You can do that, and you can change what X means yourself. Want to have more than one autosave—a list that will fill and then begin overwriting itself from the oldest save up? You can do that too, and you can set the number you have anywhere from two to the double-digits. Want to do the same thing to your quicksaves? Fill your boots. Want the saves you create to generate a templated name? Go nuts, tiger. Related Articles One of the most infuriating little things about playing games in 2025: When the quality-of-life update fixes that one problem right after you finish a game Stalker Trilogy fixes the issue that made me melt my PC with infinite quicksaves and repairs the blurry textures that have blighted players for months It's 2025 and we still can't decide on a universal input for crouching It's true save freedom, and so obviously a good idea that I can't help but feel hemmed in every time I play pretty much any other game ever made. Our regular saves in regular games are nowhere near this versatile. Autosaves? You get one. Quicksaves? You get one, and if you're playing on a gamepad you probably have to pause and then hit Y or something to use it, rather than just being able to punch F5 like god intended. Save yourselves This is, of course, the worst thing that has ever happened. The summit of human evil. That we have let this situation continue for years (years!) is an argument that we all ought to pack up our things and return, hand-in-hand, to the sea. Alright this way is admittedly pretty cool also. Because it leaves you with two options. The first: in order to keep a decent list of backup safety saves, you have to go through the laborious process of opening up the full save menu, selecting 'new save', naming it, then adding it to your big, messy list of other saves. Option two: you just YOLO it and rely on a quicksave plus an autosave, hoping they never get corrupted or you never do the thing where you try to hit quickload right before you die to fall damage or a headshot and accidentally quicksave instead, trapping yourself in a kind of endless Promethean torment. The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. My ancestors, Estonian peasants on the island of Hiiumaa, were saving like this in the days of the Tsar. Surely we have progressed further? Surely adding in a layer of customisability—letting me set how many quicksaves and autosaves I want so I always have backups even if I'm not constantly generating hard saves—is within our power in the era of fusion energy and space travel and advances in science that let us make computers which lie to us? My ancestors, Estonian peasants on the island of Hiiumaa, were saving like this in the days of the Tsar It's not. We can do it if we unite. In fact, I'll go you one further: not only is a brighter saving future just there, just in reach, but I think we should even make hardware changes to accommodate it. Let's bring back the black and white keys on Xbox gamepads. Not for in-game actions—that would be terrible—but to act as handy-dandy quicksave and quickload buttons for when we're playing on our TVs. Shoutout to the time I quicksaved the nanosecond before taking a bullet to the head in Max Payne. (Image credit: Rockstar Games) This all seems eminently doable to me. A future so possible that modders are out there creating it in their spare time on a game-by-game basis, which makes it all the more tragic whenever I fire up the hot new game of the moment and learn that I get one (1) autosave and one (1) quicksave and am expected to be happy about it. Demand better, my friends. Best gaming rigs 2025All our favorite gear 👉Check out our list of guides👈 1. Best gaming laptop: Razer Blade 16 2. Best gaming PC: HP Omen 35L 3. Best handheld gaming PC: Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS ed. 4. Best mini PC: Minisforum AtomMan G7 PT 5. Best VR headset: Meta Quest 3 Joshua Wolens Social Links Navigation News Writer One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the Financial Times. He'll play pretty much anything, and has written far too much on everything from visual novels to Assassin's Creed. His most profound loves are for CRPGs, immersive sims, and any game whose ambition outstrips its budget. He thinks you're all far too mean about Deus Ex: Invisible War. You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name. One of the most infuriating little things about playing games in 2025: When the quality-of-life update fixes that one problem right after you finish a game Stalker Trilogy fixes the issue that made me melt my PC with infinite quicksaves and repairs the blurry textures that have blighted players for months It's 2025 and we still can't decide on a universal input for crouching Everything that grinds our gears about PC gaming in 2025 I'm sick to death of PC gaming's endless launchers We deserve better than the boring carry capacity systems 90% of RPGs give us, but games like Death Stranding 2 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show the way forward Latest in Games Sekiro-likes are in a golden age, Batman games are in a drought, which makes the ground fertile for the Dark Knight soulslike I've always dreamed about Don't worry, Battlefield 6 is only putting bots in your matches while the training wheels are on in your 'Training Grounds' playlists Keeping us waiting, huh: Konami says the Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater multiplayer mode won't launch until fall It's 2025 and we still can't decide on a universal input for crouching Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director had 2 scrapped scenes from the game's ending, gives props to mocap actors who 'saved' it at the last minute Every game is a roguelike deckbuilder now, but I've finally found a few that have stopped me being a hater Latest in Features Sekiro-likes are in a golden age, Batman games are in a drought, which makes the ground fertile for the Dark Knight soulslike I've always dreamed about It's 2025 and we still can't decide on a universal input for crouching Every game is a roguelike deckbuilder now, but I've finally found a few that have stopped me being a hater It's PC Gamer's Gripes Week and you know what Windows 11 is… mostly fine. 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