It ended up being my One Drive. So I removed the backups from mydocuments wiped the human kind folder from there and re-verified game files. All good now. Hope this can help someone in the future.

Hi, thank you for your report and reply.

Glad to hear that it's all good.

Thanks again!

Hi @Fishstickles, 

we noticed that there have been other players who are experiencing the same issue. Can I ask you to upload the following files, so we can try to work on that? It would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks a lot in advance!

• Diagnostic files: These files need to be compressed as a zip or rar file or the upload will fail! Located by default: 
  • PC:\Users\[username]\Documents\Humankind\Temporary Files 
  • Mac: Select the correct file by looking at the name like "Diagnostics - 2020'10'11 @1407'46''" that gives you the date and hour which should correspond to a save file 
• Player.Log: These can be found here:
  • PC: This folder is hidden by default. You will need to reveal hidden folders (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files-0320fe58-0117-fd59-6851-9b7f9840fdb2 ) then navigate to: Users\[username]\AppData\LocalLow\AMPLITUDE Studios\Humankind
  • Mac: This is hidden in the Libraries folder. You will need to do an internet search to find specific steps for your OS. Once the libraries folder is revealed, they are in user/library/logs/amplitude studios/humankind