diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8e867fdb..65bc1a2e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -69,3 +69,9 @@ crashlytics-build.properties
 fabric.properties
 
 /netlogs/
+
+# JavaSteam residual files
+cellid.txt
+loginkey.txt
+sentry.bin
+server_list.bin
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 8d9275dd..a3026dc5 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ dependencies {
     implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.12.0'
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.java-websocket/Java-WebSocket
     implementation 'org.java-websocket:Java-WebSocket:1.5.3'
+    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-io/commons-io
+    implementation 'commons-io:commons-io:2.11.0'
 
     /* Unit Testing */
 
@@ -90,8 +92,6 @@ dependencies {
     testImplementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:mockwebserver3-junit5:5.0.0-alpha.10'
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-codec/commons-codec
     testImplementation 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.15'
-    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-io/commons-io
-    testImplementation 'commons-io:commons-io:2.11.0'
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.junit.jupiter/junit-jupiter-api
     testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:5.9.1'
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.junit.jupiter/junit-jupiter-engine
diff --git a/src/main/java/in/dragonbra/javasteam/types/KeyValue.java b/src/main/java/in/dragonbra/javasteam/types/KeyValue.java
index 2f98db1c..0256a4cd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/in/dragonbra/javasteam/types/KeyValue.java
+++ b/src/main/java/in/dragonbra/javasteam/types/KeyValue.java
@@ -5,12 +5,15 @@
 import in.dragonbra.javasteam.util.log.LogManager;
 import in.dragonbra.javasteam.util.log.Logger;
 import in.dragonbra.javasteam.util.stream.BinaryReader;
+import in.dragonbra.javasteam.util.stream.MemoryStream;
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 
 import java.io.*;
 import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.EnumSet;
@@ -20,6 +23,7 @@
 /**
  * Represents a recursive string key to arbitrary value container.
  */
+@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
 public class KeyValue {
 
     private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(KeyValue.class);
@@ -439,20 +443,26 @@ private static KeyValue loadFromFile(String path, boolean asBinary) {
         }
 
         try (FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file)) {
+            // Massage the incoming file to be encoded as UTF-8.
+            String fisString = IOUtils.toString(fis, Charset.defaultCharset());
+            byte[] fisStringToBytes = fisString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+            MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(fisStringToBytes, 0, fisStringToBytes.length - 1);
+
             KeyValue kv = new KeyValue();
 
             if (asBinary) {
-                if (!kv.tryReadAsBinary(fis)) {
+                if (!kv.tryReadAsBinary(ms)) {
                     return null;
                 }
             } else {
-                if (!kv.readAsText(fis)) {
+                if (!kv.readAsText(ms)) {
                     return null;
                 }
             }
 
             return kv;
-        } catch (IOException e) {
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
             return null;
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/test/java/in/dragonbra/javasteam/types/KeyValueTest.java b/src/test/java/in/dragonbra/javasteam/types/KeyValueTest.java
index 26642efc..d9a17383 100644
--- a/src/test/java/in/dragonbra/javasteam/types/KeyValueTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/in/dragonbra/javasteam/types/KeyValueTest.java
@@ -7,11 +7,13 @@
 import in.dragonbra.javasteam.util.stream.SeekOrigin;
 import org.apache.commons.codec.DecoderException;
 import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Hex;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
 
 import java.io.EOFException;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URL;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
@@ -512,4 +514,16 @@ public void keyValuesHandlesEnum() {
 
         assertEquals(EChatPermission.OwnerDefault, kv.get("name").asEnum(EChatPermission.class, EChatPermission.EveryoneDefault));
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void keyValues_loadAsText_should_read_successfully() {
+        URL file = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("textkeyvalues/appinfo_utf8.txt");
+
+        Assertions.assertNotNull(file, "Resource file was null");
+
+        KeyValue kv = KeyValue.loadAsText(file.getPath());
+
+        Assertions.assertEquals("1234567", kv.get("appid").getValue(), "appid should be 1234567");
+        Assertions.assertEquals(2, kv.getChildren().size(), "Children should be 2");
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/resources/textkeyvalues/appinfo_utf8.txt b/src/test/resources/textkeyvalues/appinfo_utf8.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1fd546be
Binary files /dev/null and b/src/test/resources/textkeyvalues/appinfo_utf8.txt differ