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saved 3rd mission shortly after starting (Menu / Save mission and quit) and called it a day.
Next day the option to resume campaign is grey, the save game is lost. Hm.
Follow up question: As there is just one auto-save slot, what will happen if I just open the "new campaign" screen?
At which point will the current state be written over and lost?
Sorry you lost your saved game. Not sure what might have happened. 
There is one save slot, sort of like FTL. If you want to do backups or concurrent playthroughs, you can find the save file in your Documents folder.
No problem. I think I know what happened now.
I usually play offline, without steam verification, checking for updates only now and then.
My playername changed from <steamnick> to <unknown> (don't know why).
So the program is probably missing the save because it looks in the wrong directory?
Exclusively? Sounds wrong, at least if you have SP content.
Steam offers local play, so usually there's also local saves. I used to play on the train during commute (this game would do very well here),
It should work without being connected online. I'm just surmising that maybe you played offline and then the Cloud smashed it when you connected, which is not what we'd like to happen. You should have gotten a Steam popup asking if you wanted to sync your saves with the Cloud.
Have you tried again? If you are worried, you can back up your campaign saves in you Documents folder.
No trouble, this is Beta. Anyway I must have been tired yesterday, ofc there's a local save, I used it.
I found the issue.
Savegames are in a Document folder (My Games\Offworld), which is unusual.
But my folder is usually encrypted and must be mounted separately. Windows can use several physical locations for this logical folder.
The encrypted version has priority, if it is off then Windows uses the default folder.
When I quit I shut down the computer instead of just going to sleeep mode; next day I didn't mount documents first. Explains the missing save game.
I also didn't start Steam, just used a link on the exe. Maybe this caused the nick to be changed to <unknown>.
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