Can Games Played Via Family Sharing Access Saved Games Once Game Activated On Your Own Account?

My brother used family sharing to play Skyrim from my account. I don't know about him, but my saves are in cloud - I cannot see his saved games and he cannot see mine. hope I did not misunderstand the question

PS: After he bought the game himself, he could continue the savegame he created using his account and my library (family sharing).

He will keep his save files if:

• The game uses cloud save.
• He has been playing the game on his own computer and that's where he will play it again.

Or you'll have to copy + paste the save files from the documents folders or wherever the game keeps the save files.

The game is fairly cheap if you can trade for it. It has been bundled many times so it wouldn't be a waste of a game added to his account even if he is unable to access his saves.

It doesn't seem to use steam cloud, so I would find and backup the save game folder.

Family Sharing games are no different from any other game, except being unavailable while in use. Steam Cloud saves are to your own account, even on a family shared game, so if it uses Steam Cloud, his saves will be there, otherwise, they're on his PC and will be usable. Make sure you back up if it's the later!

Thanks to everyone for their advice. An incredibly kind SG member gifted me a copy of Pixel Piracy and, after backing up the PP folder, I installed the game onto my son's PC and he is able to play it on his own account and access his saved game (which he would have been devastated to lose). As noted above PP doesn't do cloud saving so the saved game was presumably only on my son's HDD but his account copy must use the same installed copy of PP to play as the one he used via family sharing (also as noted above)

Pixel Piracy is quite fun although it probably has the most unintuitive controlls I've ever seen. Really should try it again with the "new" update with the winter islands.

Most games store saves on the cloud or in Documents. With the former, they are tied to the Steam account until you remove the Cloud feature from the game in the client (sometimes it is even advised as Cloud can be slow and buggy). With the latter, they don't care whose account is playing the game, they display the same set of saves.