Skills are not displayed anymore - blank when opening the skills menu

  • Game Version: latest

  • Platform: (Steam windows)

  • Mods: (none)

  • Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS version, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage…):

  • Steps to Reproduce: try to open the skills menu (the expanded view). Skills are not displayed. The menu is blank.

  • Please provide the entire save file(s) from the date when the issue occurred.

    20260429-214204.zip (28.2 MB)

  • Details:
    As said above. When you expand the skills menu to see all skills of a Zoi it remains blank and is not showing a single skill. This is new after today’s patch. Yesterday the skills were still visible. See screenshot:

Very weird indeed. In my save files it looks exactly as intended:

Did you verify the game files already?

@HeinziDerHeld Interesting…

You mean validating the game files via Steam? This I already did. As I do not use any mods, this also can not be the reason.

In your game: is it a new or an old save? Mine is from before the new update.

The save I tried it with is from shortly after the inZOI launch, so also quite old. Ancient actually :smiley: Are the skills visible again after today’s hotfix? :thinking:

@HeinziDerHeld working all day and no chance to check :grimacing:

Will do latest tomorrow and let you know. Hope the hotfix will help.

@HeinziDerHeld I was now able to check. And unfortunately skills are still not displayed. I also checked another save file (created before the update) and it is the same.

Interestingly though when I go into the Map view and then select a household and a Zoi from there and click on one of their skills to open the skill window then the skills are displayed properly:

I now tried to create a completely new save and there the skills are displayed also in the normal mode while playing. I do not understand though why this is not the case for my old saves. Don’t want to start a new save now as I spent so much time to build up the older saves. I don’t have any mods in my game and also did the validation with Steam. What else could it be?

Wait, I’ll put your save file in my game and check if it’s displayed incorrectly there too. It should be, I guess. I’ll come back and report in a few minutes.

So, I put it in my setup and everything was displayed correctly. I also checked other households and couldn’t detect the bug there either.


I created a new save file from yours. If you want to, I can share it here with a small guide how to put it in your game, if you haven’t done this before. Just let me know :smiley:

BTW: The new save file isn’t guaranteed to solve the bug, but it’s the only solution I can think of atm.

Oh that would be incredibly kind of you :two_hearts: . And I would love to try this out if this is not too much overhead for you. Here is my latest save file with the issue:

20260501-163256.zip (10.3 MB)

If I am right I would just put the new save under my saved games in the Inzoi folder for it to work or is there more you need to do?

So, this is the new save file based on the ZIP you sent a few minutes ago:
EllaEstella_Holmes.zip (22.3 MB)

Just like you said, you unzip it and then move the whole folder into your general save file folder. You can always take a look at the existing ones to check if it’s correct. I think it’d be best if you move your old save file with the Holmes household to a different place. Keep it as a backup, but take it out of the general save file folder.

If you need anything, just ask :smiley: Hope it works. Fingers crossed :folded_hands:

Thank you so much for trying @HeinziDerHeld Unfortunately still the same also with the save you generated. Really don’t understand why this is the case. Also as a new game did not have this issue while all my save files from before the update do have this issue.

But really a big Thank you for trying to help me :two_hearts:

Maybe imported save files can’t fix the issue because it’s linked to the .ini game file of your system :thinking: unfortunately, I’m not very experienced when it comes to those files. You might try to follow these steps:

It’s just a guess, so it might not change anything =/

Thank you @HeinziDerHeld Tried that as well. Still the same unfortunately. So maybe it is a random bug which does not happen for everybody but only in some games?

I am also lost, don’t know what else to try. Hoping that they look into it. I mean, the save is still playable and of course I can somehow live with the workaround to check the skills in the Map view. But annoying as this is a rotational save which I am building up since more than 2 months already…

I totally get that it’s kinda tedious to always go to map view to check the skills. It’s not a huge bug, but should get fixed in some future updates for sure. I’m positive the team will look into it whenever they have time :smiley:

I checked to see if mine was working correctly and it shows up like this in a new save as well as an old save

@VIBES thank you for checking!

I only see skills if I create a new save file. All my existing save files are blank when I click the skills menu. Only if I open the skills menu from the map view, then I can see it.

I really would like to know what is causing this and how to solve it. And I really don’t want to give up all my saves. As I do not use mods and did all the steam validation steps, deleting shader cache files etc. I really have no idea what this could be.

Hello! I’ve encountered this error too. I used to open skills by clicking on any of them:

And I could see the full list of skills. But now I just get a blank page ((

However, if I click on any skill from Zoi’s profile:

Then all the skills open:

It’s certainly not very convenient and requires extra clicks, but at least it allows me to see all the skills.

I believe this is a bug that should be fixed.