Where PUBG Replay Files Are Stored: Demos Folder Path, Structure, and Keeping Them After Patches

PUBG replay files are stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\TslGame\Saved\Demos. On a real machine that resolves to C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\TslGame\Saved\Demos, verified on Windows 11 with the Steam version on September 14, 2026 (Update 43.1). The folder is not inside the game's install directory under steamapps\common\PUBG; it sits under your user profile's AppData, which Windows hides by default, so you may need to turn on hidden items in File Explorer. PUBG's own support article points to the same parent folder, TslGame\Saved, when it asks players for crash dumps. Open Demos and you will not find a single mp4. Instead you get a row of folders with long names beginning match.bro.official, and each of those folders is one complete replay. If you are looking for how to open the death cam or play a replay inside the game, that is covered in how to watch PUBG death cam and replays. This article stays on the file side: where the folders are, what is inside, how to match them to the in-game list, how to back them up, and why they stop playing after a patch.

Decide first: back up the folder, or keep it as video

The answer depends on what the replay is for. If you need it to report a problem to support or to rewatch a round on the same game version, copy the whole folder out of Demos and you are done; measured sizes ranged from 3.9 MB for a 3.3-minute match to 25.9 MB for a 24.5-minute one, so space is not a concern. If the goal is to send a kill to a friend or edit it for upload, backing up the folder does not help. PUBG.demo is match data that no video player can open, and PUBG's official patch notes for Updates 12.2 and 14.1 state that after a replay-system update, replay files from previous updates can no longer be used. Our test machine still had folders recorded in January 2026 sitting on disk in September, but a folder surviving on disk is not the same as it playing back. For anything you want to keep as video, play the replay and capture the screen to mp4; the full procedure is in how to convert PUBG replays to mp4. The steps below start with opening the folder, and the table that follows lays out where the folders are and how they are built.

From opening the folder to surviving the next patch

1. 1Open the Demos folder directly — Press Win+R, paste %LOCALAPPDATA%\TslGame\Saved\Demos and hit Enter; the replay folder opens immediately. Pasting the same path into the File Explorer address bar works too. If Windows says the folder does not exist, replay saving is either turned off or nothing has been recorded yet, so finish a match and look again. On the Kakao build, open %LOCALAPPDATA% first and check whether a TslGame folder is present.
2. 2Read the folder name to identify the match — Names look like match.bro.official.pc-2018-42.steam.squad.as.2026.08.22.04.<match ID>__USER__<account ID>. steam is the platform, squad the mode, as the region, and the date and hour are UTC: a match that ended at 13:33 Korean time was stamped 04, so convert from your local time zone. The pc-2018-42 token matched the major update number (42.x) that was live when the replay was recorded.
3. 3Match folders to the in-game list — The in-game list is under Career > Replays. When several folders look alike, open that folder's PUBG.replayinfo in Notepad. It contains readable values such as GameVersion, MapName (an internal map name), Mode, LengthInMS (match length), and Timestamp, so you can line up date, mode, and length against the list. Open it read-only and never edit or save it.
4. 4Back up and report with the whole folder — Copy the entire folder to another drive or external storage; extracting PUBG.demo alone is useless. When you report lag or bugs, PUBG support asks for the match ID and the replay of that match, and because the match ID is part of the folder name, this folder is exactly what they need. The tail of the name carries your account ID, so blur it before posting screenshots.
5. 5When replays refuse to play after a patch — Updates did not empty the Demos folder on our machine: folders from the 39.x, 41.x, and 42.x eras were still present under 43.1 (live on PC since September 10, 2026). But the official notes for Updates 12.2 and 14.1 state that replays from previous updates cannot be used once the replay system changes, and the game updates itself, so staying on the same version is not a realistic option. The only reliable move is to turn footage you care about into video before the next update lands.
6. 6Keep 2D Replay and the 3D camera separate — 2D Replay, added in Update 30.2, lives under Career > Match History > Match Report > 2D Replay and shows match details, the player list, engagements, zones, and care packages at 1, 2, 5, 10, or 20x speed on PC. Since Update 40.1 the same screen offers a View in Browser button and QR code that open it on the PUBG Bridge website after a KRAFTON ID login. Only the free-camera 3D replay lives in the Demos folder.

Demos folder: path, structure, and retention (Steam, verified September 14, 2026)

When a replay is missing or cannot be found

• Replay saving is enabled: the local GameUserSettings.ini records it as bUseClientReplay=True, and the game exposes a setting to turn it off (confirm the exact menu name in-game)
• The match was not in a mode without replays: as of Update 42.1, Ally Duo disables spectating, death cam, and replay
• The map was not under a temporary replay suspension: during Update 33.1, replay and death cam were disabled on Sanhok
• Hidden items are turned on in File Explorer so the AppData folder is visible
• Copies and deletions were done per folder, and PUBG.replayinfo was only read, never saved
• Anything you plan to share or edit exists as an mp4, not just as a replay folder

If you want mp4s that outlive every patch

To sum up: a Demos replay is match data that no player can open as video, and once a replay-system update ships, PUBG gives no guarantee that older replays still play. The only way to be sure a kill survives is to have it as an mp4 while the match happens, and starting and stopping a recorder by hand every round does not last. DOR is a free Windows desktop app that detects PUBG automatically, records the full match, and cuts moments like kills into highlight clips on its own, storing them in the in-app library. NVIDIA NVENC hardware encoding is the default, so the load on the game stays low, and it captures game audio and your microphone together. From the library you open any clip in the browser clip editor with nothing to install, trim it, and share a dor.gg link that plays in a mobile browser. Patches come and go; the mp4 stays. To see how it compares with other recorders, read the best PUBG clipping software compared.

Sources and verification date

The save path, folder structure, sizes, and folder-name format were checked directly on Windows 11 with the Steam version (Update 43.1) on September 14, 2026. The Kakao build was not tested, so the article only describes how to look for it. PUBG's official support article Game keeps crashing points to the same parent folder, C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\TslGame\Saved\, for dump files and notes that AppData is a hidden folder. The statement that replays from previous updates can no longer be used comes from the official PC Update 14.1 patch notes. 2D Replay (Updates 30.2 and 40.1), the Ally Duo replay restriction (42.1), the Career > Replays menu and the Spectate and Replay key-bindings tab (42.3), and the current version 43.1 were confirmed in the official patch notes on pubg.com. Hotkeys follow the PUBG Support Center article on replay-mode hotkeys (updated June 2020) and may change with game updates.