Introduction
I believe the currently available save solutions for Unity are catering to 2010s-era coders, not to 2025’s game designers and indie developers. The learning curve is too steep, overly code-centric, and often requires users to build bridge classes or modify the core code of other assets. Game designers - as well as their coding counterparts - need solutions that are easy to use, yet robust enough to handle sophisticated projects without requiring edits to third-party code or the creation of bridge classes.
You have probably already asked yourself:
Why did I have to write code just to save a prefab? Why did I need to manage IDs and register objects manually? Why did I need to read a 50-page manual to make something persistent?
That’s not game development. That’s punishment.
I wanted a save system that worked like the rest of Unity should have worked:
Drop a component.
Choose what you want to remember.
Click save.
Done.
No compiler errors. No architecture meetings with yourself. No forum archaeology to figure out how to restore an object that was just working a minute ago.
So I built Crystal Save.
Of course, it’s not perfect, and it took some time to get there. But It is fast and it’s easy to use. And when someone finds something that breaks ...I fix it. Not next quarter. Today, if I can.
Because I don’t believe in “customer pipelines.” I believe in users who build games at night and want things to work tonight.
You won’t find any cryptic API reference PDF. You’ll find two components and a Save Menu that installs itself.
You won’t find marketing buzzwords. You’ll find Supabase integration, WebGL save encryption, Unity cloud saves, themeable UIs, and MemoryPack performance. And you won’t have to configure them. You’ll use them.
Every line in my changelog is there because someone needed it.
Crystal Save is what happens when you stop designing for developers and start designing for the people who actually make games.
Let Unity do the rendering. Let Crystal Save do the remembering. You? You build.
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