Finish the day before you leave
The game resumes through save slots. Older player guidance describes autosaving when you wake from the previous day, which supports continuing by day rather than assuming that closing the game instantly saves every action.
Meet quota, finish settlement, follow HOLD E TO CONTINUE, and advance to the next day before exiting. This recommendation combines that save description with the visible day-end sequence. It does not guarantee preservation of a mid-round hand, random state or unbanked income.
Choose the slot with your progress
The readable 1.0.32 main menu has three slots. Existing slots show MONEY / QUOTA / TICKETS / DAYS with SELECT. Empty slots show EMPTY SLOT and NEW GAME.
To continue, choose SELECT on your existing progress slot. Check its date, days and money to recognize it. Use NEW GAME on an empty slot to begin separately. Do not use an existing slot’s delete X as a continue action.
Rules belong to each save
For a custom new save, open the empty slot’s gear before creating it. The official 1.0.30 announcement describes separate timer, difficulty, starting money/Tickets and Endless rules for each slot. They cannot be changed after creation. Endless omits the usual endings and ending achievements.
Saving is not the same as configuring a save. Nor does reloading guarantee different machines, cards or endings: older same-day RNG guidance and later seed-reroll failures make that promise unreliable. There is no verified save.dat location, deletion script or current cloud-sync guarantee here.