DO NOT ATTEMPT RELAUNCHING THE DEMO GAME, you'll loose all progress, like me.

IF you already did relaunch it, sorry bruh, you lost it. This guide is useless now

I saw someone asking this somewhere without answer few years ago and you are in this situation

• You have downloaded and played the Demo
  
• You have then bought the Full Game
  
• You want to continue in the Full Game your Demo game

I tried the Demo version. I heard the Italian Opera song playing about how great humanity is, I guess, got the Chinese empire to start out, I was friend with the Americans: I had to buy the game, 2 euro, man!

At a certain it pop up something for which you can't do ♥♥♥♥ anymore because they want you to buy the Full Version. So you kinda get confused over 9000. OK OK bruh, I was sold at the Italian Intro already, damn no need to slap me with a pop up and do me dirty like that.

First off, don't start over the Demo or try to load otherwise. I am pretty sure it overload the save in the Demo and you loose it all like I said in the beginning. In fact the saves from Demo and from Full Game are in completely different directory and structures as they are two different downloads. Demo has it directly on the game folder, the Full Version into the Operating System private directory of the Windows 11 account/user.

From the Steam Library, you go to your game, in general and click like in the picture

name-of-the game->mange->browse local files

I assume <Installation Path> is where you installed the Civilization VI Demo (on windows).

To export the demo.Civ6Save into the full game:

1. Download and play Civilization VI Demo
   
2. Quit / Exit Game
   
3. Download and launch Civilization VI Full Game
   
4. (Optional) launch a game in Civilization VI and save it (just to know there's a save folder already)
   
5. Quit / (optional?) Exit to Desktop
   
6. copy <Installation Path>:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI Demo\Base\Assets\Demo\Saves\demo.Civ6Save
   
7. paste it into <Win11 OS drive, C: most likely>\Users\<Your Username>\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Saves\Single\
   
8. Load the game from Civilization VI Full Game

You will see the saved game in the Load list for Single Player submenu

I Loaded it correctly but I did the mistake of trying to relaunch the Demo VI to continue my game there, wiping out the progress, so I could load a Chinese starting game only, let me know if your works, just to know someone didn't loose few hours of game by reading few minute of this.

I should not be a guide but a moderator told me to do this instead of just placing it into a discussion

Alos, I guess you can now Delete the Demo? I'll do right after publishing this guide, so don't ask me to test other stuff :D