Save Button

The Cryo Button, commonly also called the Save Button, is an NPC that appears in Enter the Gungeon, attached to the wall next to the elevator at the end of each floor, or at the entrance to secret chambers.

Function

Interacting with the Save Button gives the player the option to save and exit the game at the end of each floor, resuming the run at a later time. It appears to the left of each exit elevator, as well as at the trapdoor to the Oubliette, the hidden staircase to the Abbey of the True Gun, and the rift to Bullet Hell, although it only appears next to secret exits once they have been used once.

• The Cryo Button does not appear at the trapdoor to the Resourceful Rat's Lair or the grate to the R&G Dept.
• The Cryo Button does not appear at entrance to Bullet Hell while playing as The Paradox.
• Using the Button replaces the elevator to the next floor for a special cryo-chamber (or in the case of secret exits, simply freezes over the exit). Taking this cryo-exit saves the run and returns the player to the title screen with a new 'Continue' option.
  • Continuing a run returns the player to their saved run on the next floor after the frozen transition. All of the players items, guns, and pickups are saved.

Dialogue

The collected dialogue of the Cryo Button.

Dialogue
(Interacting) Hey! You're looking pretty beat up. Want to take a break and come back later? Sure. <Save and Quit> Not this time, talking button. Alright then, quitter. Head on down to save! (A slight pause as the button is smacked in the face to call the Cryo Elevator) Ouch! Good luck down below!
(Interacting after the Cryo Elevator has been called) Changed your mind? I don't want to rest. No, just wanted to chat. You just wanted to punch me, didn't you? (Removes the Cryo Elevator and returns the regular Elevator) Well this is a waste of everyone's time.

Notes

• After agreeing to save and exit, the player can talk to the button again to make the exit normal again.
• It is not possible to save the current floor as the player has to use an exit in order to save the game.
• The Save Button is not available during Boss Rush.
• Although the Cryo Button enables the player to willingly leave their run mid-way, Enter the Gungeon automatically saves at the end of each chamber. If the game crashes, it will attempt to recover the run using these automated saves via the same system as the Cryo Button, with the 'Continue' button on the main menu.
• The reason why Enter the Gungeons save system functions by saving between chambers is because the layout of each floor is not entirely deterministic. Saving, quitting, and reloading a level with the same random seed may still result in a different floor layout. Saving between chambers sidesteps this issue.
  • Dodge Roll programmer Brent Sodman has expressed a strong to desire to implement mid-level save and quit functionality to Enter the Gungeon, should totally deterministic floor layouts be achieved. Despite this, deterministic floor generation was not implemented into Enter the Gungeon, and as such neither were mid-level saves.
  • Brent has said that he would likely enable this hypothetical mid-run save feature by placing a Cryo Button at the entrance elevator to each Chamber, as well as the exit. This button may have only been usable on initial entry, vanishing or becoming otherwise unusable if the player left the entry room of the chamber.

Bugs

• Synergy Factor is recalculated upon loading a save.
• Magnificence is not saved between runs however, allowing for potential exploitation should the player come across A or S tier weapons in the early game. (Gunslinger is exempt from this, all of Gunslinger items are recalculated for magnificence including Lich's Eye Bullets)
• Reloading a save re-randomises the triggers for Sprun.

Gallery

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  Save Button next to a Cryogenic Elevator.
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  Save Button next to a frozen Trapdoor to Oubliette.
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  Save Button next to a frozen Stairway to the Abbey.
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  Save Button freezing itself around the entrance to Bullet Hell.
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  Save Button's expression upon cancelling the save.

See Also

• NPCs