diff --git a/platform/windows/os_windows.cpp b/platform/windows/os_windows.cpp
index 5e57827c68e..7f86f3bb984 100644
--- a/platform/windows/os_windows.cpp
+++ b/platform/windows/os_windows.cpp
@@ -1835,7 +1835,7 @@ String OS_Windows::get_data_dir() const {
 
 		if (has_environment("APPDATA")) {
 
-			return OS::get_singleton()->get_environment("APPDATA")+"\\"+an;
+			return (OS::get_singleton()->get_environment("APPDATA")+"\\"+an).replace("\\","/"); // windows path to unix path to be consistent with get_resource_path
 		}
 	}