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Original story (published on September 16, 2021) follows:

Merge Games is a private Australia gaming company known for titles like Monster Harvest. The farming and monster collecting role-playing game is available platforms like Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Microsoft Windows.

While Monster Harvest is played by many across the aforementioned platforms, an issue has been spoiling their experience lately.

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According to multiple reports, there is an issue with Monster Harvest where the save files are not loading for many players. Also, when players try to load a save game, Monster Harvest takes them back to the home screen.

While most reports are from those using Nintendo Switch, it is possible that this issue might be affecting other platforms as well. It is unclear what the exact cause of the problem is but the issue appears to be widespread.

This is inconveniencing players as they are unable to resume the game from when they last made progress. However, affected players may not have to face this problem for too long.

Please fix the issue with the saved files, I worked so hard on mine and when I load it, it takes me back to the main menu, it’s heartbreaking
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Anyone else try Monster Harvest and it just locks your save file? It’s done it 3 times to me, days 11, 15 and 16 and I’m not wanting to really start again…
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Merge Games has acknowledged the issue with Monster Harvest where save files are not loading and are a fix is already being developed. Also, it has been said that a will be rolled out to fix this problem.

However, it is unclear how long it will take to release the patch with bug fixes as Merge Games has not shared any ETA regarding the same. Moreover, a recent official blog post outlines the complexity of implementing the fix.

It seems that isolating the issue with save data is quite risky and might break a lot of other things in Monster Harvest. This is why the patch with bug fixes is taking longer to arrive.

Thank you, and apologies for the technical issues.

There is a patch underway to bring parity with the PC version to consoles including a fix for save games.
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However, it is still good to see that Merge Games is working to fix the aforementioned issue while also maintaining proper communication with affected players.

Thus it is safe to assume that the issue with Monster Harvest where save files are not loading will be fixed in the next update. However, this is still based on speculation.

Hopefully, Merge Games soon releases the much awaited patch for Monster Harvest so that players can resume playing the game from when they last progressed.

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That said, we will keep tracking this for further development and will report back as and when new information emerges so stay tuned.

Update 1 (September 21)

12:56 pm (IST): Merge Games has submitted a patch for the Nintendo Switch and confirmed the Xbox and PlayStation will follow shortly.

The team confirmed that the save issue was a top priority for this, however, there are other bugs that have been addressed as well. A detailed changelog will be shared before the update goes live.

The save issue was a top priority but there’s a lot of other things addressed too, comprising the first 6 hotfixes on PC – we’ll share a full list before it goes live (Source)

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Featured image source: Merge Games

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