How to transfer your The Last of Us 2 PS4 save to PS5 for Remastered

Jan. 19, 2024

If you want your PS4 progress on PS5 for The Last of Us 2 Remastered, here’s how

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Transferring a The Last of Us 2 Remastered save from PS4 to PS5 is a painless procedure you’ll need to do if you want your progress and trophies to carry over. There’s a few stages to the process, and it varies depending on if you already have save data uploaded. So let’s take a look at how to do it, and how to get your The Last of Us 2 PS4 save on to PS5 for Remastered.

How to upload your The Last of Us 2 Remastered PS4 save

How to upload your The Last of Us 2 Remastered PS4 save

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If you’ve already uploaded your The Last of Us 2 PS4 save to the cloud you can skip this part. However, if you haven’t then you need to do this first. If you don’t have access to cloud saves then check the final section of this guide for how to do it with a USB drive. That requires no internet and basically replaces the Cloud with a thumbdrive.

Assuming you’re using cloud saves then you’ll need to have your PS4 turned on and connected to the internet before you follow these steps:

That will take your PS4 The Last of Us 2 saved data and put it in the cloud, where your PS5 can then download it. To do that, read on:

Assuming you have your PS4 The Last of Us 2 save uploaded into the cloud (and if not, follow the instructions above) then you can follow these steps to download that data and import it into the Remastered PS5 game:

If you’ve done it right then you should find your game on PS5, as you left it on PS4. All your progress, trophies, and so on should be unlocked. From my experience however, things like concept art, models and other extras unlocked with points will need to be unlocked again.

If you don’t have access to cloud based saves then you can still transfer your data using a USB stick using the following method:

Got some old progress to carry over from PS4? Here’s how to transfer yourThe Last of Us 2 saveto Remastered.

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