I reinstalled the game. I think the issue was that before I had installed the game on an external volume and the game may have not known that or some permissions on that disk were off or something odd. Now that I installed it in the default steam li…
I'm an admin and I have full control, I also know I have full privileges and I checked the permissions for all the related files and folders and they're all read/write. Sorry for not mentioning but I'm on a Mac. And I'm saving via the ESC menu.