Saving Highscores without playerprefs?

Unity Engine
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I am making a game at the moment and I’m trying to implement a very basic saving system for high scores and other statistics. My original idea was to have a file that stored the top 5 high scores, and whenever a new score was achieved the list was resorted and the top 5 would be saved to the file. However, when trying to implement this using a TextAsset I realised Unity doesn’t save changed made to them, and playerprefs can only store constant values (not like a list of highscores or other statistics where there might be more than just the top 5).

I have used python before and that works by just having a file in the same path as the project, and the files can be directly manipulated by the code. Is there anything similar to this in Unity?

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Hi,
You could check some tutorials on how to save to a file in binary or JSON format. There are a few good ones that explain the basics clearly, like this one:

It’s better to implement some sort of basic save/load architecture for your game so that you can load the data, then use and manipulate it, and write back to the disk when needed.

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Yep! Use Application.persistentDataPath with the System.IO classes.

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You can certainly store this information in PlayerPrefs, perhaps as simple as a tokenized string like “100:110:115:120:134”