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Beyond bypassing difficulty, save editing fosters a unique form of digital creativity. In sandbox games or role-playing epics, players often use editors to facilitate role-playing scenarios that the developers never anticipated. A player might use an editor to strip their character of all weapons to play a "pacifist run," or to spawn thousands of a specific item to construct a massive architectural project.

Video games store player progress—such as character stats, inventory items, and quest flags—in specific file formats on a computer or console. Because every game uses a unique data structure, save editors are usually game-specific; for instance, the NMS Save Editor is built specifically for No Man’s Sky , while other tools might be tailored for Skyrim or Satisfactory . The process generally involves: save editor