What he said it true, i tested it. What you could do, and what i have done personally, is done both save to cloud as well as local. You just have play your game for a bit, then exit it, and it will upload to the steam cloud, then you hope on again, and in the character selection screen as well as world selection screen, there are buttons that say "move to local/cloud", put local, then exit the game. The game then creates a seperate folder for your character and your world. By doing this, it enables you to have a save via cloud, as the devs were wanting, but you also have a local save of your character and world...as a back up. I zip both my character and world each time i play so the local save is not messed with, and they match up with the cloud version. You just want to relaunch the game and then move the saves of your character and world again back to the steam cloud. Its a bit irritating to do all the steps, but this way you are sure to have a safe copy of your character and world, just in case steam cloud ever desycns again like it did....i lost a world that i had created. 200+hours. Never again i told myself. Hence why i save now via cloud AND by local, just for double safety.