I played for 10 hours straight yesterday and of course had auto save on, and my brother goes on a few hours later to try it and it only saves his character?
I have it for PC, can you seriously only have one character?
You can have tons, you have to use the SAVE function, not just autosaves. There are three autosaves that constantly overwrite. Manual saves stay forever. If you did make a manual save, your brother overwrote it, and you should eat him.
The game only uses 3 autosave files. You can have multiple characters but the game keeps all saves in the same place. Your lack of using saves other than auto saves was the problem.