In game Don't starve, the save-files get deleted if the player dies. This is quite annoying if, for example, you have survived for 100 days and suddenly get killed by a tentacle.

Most solutions for this issue focus on backup files. Namely, backup files when you are still alive and recover them if you die. I tried these solutions for a while and finally git came to my mind.

We need to find save-files directory first. On MacOS, for example, they may be located at

~/Library/Application Support/Steam/userdata/<your-id>/219740/remote/

( 219740 is the id of Don't starve )

ls the save-files directory, you will see several executable files including profile, saveindex, morgue. They are the save-files we've been looking for.

There's no need to figure out what roles these files are playing. Just backup and recover them with git.

cd ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/userdata/<your-id>/219740/remote/
git init

backup ( == commit everything you've done ):

git add .
git commit "your message"

recover the most recent archive if you are killed ( == Discard all changes since the last commit ):

git checkout ./

There're much more you can do if you are familiar with git.

ZHU YUE