How Saving and Sleeping Work in Casualties: Unknown

The normal save point

The wiki describes saving by entering the bottom of a layer and choosing Save and Exit, which lets you take a break between layers and resume later. A guide covering save and resume repeats the same menu flow: finish the layer, then choose Save and exit at the transition. The FAQ describes the demo 7.0.1 version of that flow explicitly.

Why quitting early is different

Quitting halfway through a layer is not a normal save, and the game's own menu warns that it ends your run. This is the single most important thing to understand before closing the game after a bad injury: the safe point is the layer transition, not wherever you happen to be standing. Check the health panel before pushing for that transition — the internal bleeding page covers what to stabilise first.

The command-line exception

The wiki documents a saveandquit command that allows you to quit mid-layer and still create a save file. It also notes where that data is saved. Treat this as a documented workaround rather than a normal menu feature: it comes from the community wiki, not from the store page, and its behaviour may depend on the build.

Sleeping

Sleep is part of the between-run routine shown in 1.0 gameplay recordings, where the player rests before continuing toward the next layer, and a tips recording discusses items used when sleeping. Sleeping with untreated wounds is a separate risk, covered in the beginner guide. Sleep is not the same action as saving — do not use one as a substitute for the other.

What changes between builds

The FAQ describes the demo 7.0.1 menu flow, while other sources describe earlier builds. Menu labels and the exact behaviour of quitting mid-layer may have changed in 1.0. No first-hand test of the save menu was performed for this page.