Godot Engine Game Development Projects

Reading and writing files

As you've seen before, Godot keeps all resources stored as files in the project folder. From code, these are accessible under the res:// folder path. For example, res://project.godot will always point to the current project's configuration file, no matter where on your computer the project is actually stored.

However, the res:// filesystem is set as read-only for safety when the project is run. It is also read-only when the project is exported. Any data that needs to be retained by the user is placed in the user:// file path. Where this folder physically exists will vary depending on what platform the game is running on.

You can find the current platform's user-writable data folder using OS.get_user_data_dir(). Add ...