It's still NOT FIXED!  =)  (Last dev update I could find was from 17 days ago).

Having exactly the same problem:  It doesn't matter what save game I try and load, it chokes at 60% and the load bar never goes any further. EDIT:  Actually, some of the earlier files DO load. They just stopped working after the latest rounds of play.  I'm on turn 220, and everything from about 140 on doesn't work.  This sucks so bad!  

I've been having this issue since Endless Legend (which never got fixed) and can't believe I'm having to submit the exact same bug report for the exact same reason on a totally new title.

Doesn't anyone play LONG games on the TEST TEAM?  

What happens is that the performance of the game, especially in games on the largest maps that go over 200 rounds have a tendency to bog down over several hours.  Eventually the in-game lag  (MEMEORY LEAK???) becomes so bad the game is basically unplayable, but I found a great workaround:  Just save the latest game round, confirm that it saved, and then exit the game completely and reload it from scratch.  Then, create a new game (because you can't load a saved game from the main menu without it crashing the game?!?!) and USUALLY that works. But eventually some of that memory corruption winds up in the save game (I am just guessing here!) and then loading that saved game is enough to choke the game and hang it on the load game screen.

THIS BUG IS STILL NOT FIXED SINCE ENDLESS LEGEND HAD THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM!

(Just wanted to be clear.)  I QUIT playing Endless Legend because NONE of my games over about round 125 would load.  If you can't load a saved game then what's the point in playing? This appears to be the exact same issue with Endless Space 2 which leads me to believe it's a UNITY problem and nothing to do with the game code.

- I've tried ALL of the Steam tips to getting the game running and none of them help.  
- This is a clean load of Endless Space 2 on a clean load of Windows 10 (with creator update).
- There are NO other programs installed except for Steam and the game and the video card drivers.  (Mainboard and device drivers also installed correctly).

I really can't make the runtime enviroment any cleaner for ES2 to run and yes, I did disable the firewall and the built in AV.  No effect at all.  BECAUSE IT'S A BUG!  lol.

NOTES:  I ran into this "saved game"/ load issues with Endless Legend on BOTH Mac and PC installations, so I am guessing that this issue appears to NOT be platform specfic either.

With Endless Space 2, all of the save games seemed to work up to about round 140ish, and all were saved in the cloud.  At that point, my antivirus program trashed my windows (Thanks Comodo!  Bastards...) and I had to reload the whole PC from scratch.  

Once windows was updates, all the correct drivers installed, and once Endless Space 2 was back up and running, I then made the mistake of not "checking" the option to save games in the cloud, so the most recent games are saved locally.  

NONE of the locally saved games will load past 60% and I tried the "hack" workaround of loading a new game and then loading the saved level from within the game and no dice.  Still chokes at 60%.  I also tried relocating the locally saved game to the Cloud directory just to see if the location of the files made any difference and I can't see any.  And of course I tried doing the logical thing which is to try and load the saved game from the main screen and that either hung the program at 60% or crashed it altogether.

It is REALLY DISAPPOINTING that this SAME BUG(S) have now come with BOTH of your best titles!  

This REALLY needs to be fixed.  This is what they call in the software business a "show stopper" so I'm not sure how this game got released without fixing an issues that plagued your previous title!

I loved Endless Legend and I love Endless Space 2, but the laggy behavior in the end game (in either game) forces me to restart the whole game periodically (memory leak????) to improve performance, and now I can't load my saved games.  Endless Legend is STILL broken the last time I checked, so I am not holding out a lot of hope for ES2.

I don't WANT to ask for a refund, I'd much rather see the bugs just fixed so I can get back to enjoying another good game!  But, if I can't get the bugs fixed, then I will ask for a refund.  I hate to do it, but I'm not paying for a game I can't play the way it is SUPPOSED to be played.  

NOT TWICE IN A ROW!  It's almost unbelievable that this bug hasn't been fixed over the last 3 YEARS!  =(

The last update I could find on this bug was in another thread from 17 days ago.

IT'S STILL NOT FIXED!  =)  Good luck guys!  If you need any additional information please message me, or e-mail me!

Any ETA from now???