Having Major Issues Attempting to Hard Restart Doki Doki Literature Club

[Starry Knight]

Hey Community,
I work a lot for my job and commonly lose track of games for months or even years at a time, so I could use some help as I'm currently very frustrated. I made some progress into Doki Doki Literature Club but want to reset, but I don't think I've ever had more difficulty trying to locate a save file. I've performed the following to try to restart this:
1. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the game on Steam.
2. I've verified the integrity of files on steam.
3. I've gone into the %appdata% folder --> RenPy folder is not present here.
4. I've hard searched my C-Drive for RenPy Folder
5. I've poked around SteamLibrary --> Steam Apps --> Common --> DDLC+ and cannot find any FirstRun file or FirstSave. I've even filtered by date for any obvious file edits.
6. I've turned off Steam cloud saves on both my profile and DDLC Properties. --> Game still starts with Monika blurred out indicating progress.
I'm not sure if anyone can help me with this, but I might just have to watch the full story on Youtube? Why is it so difficult to restart this game?

[Starry Knight]

Figured it out after much angst and consternation...For Doki Doki Plus, please do the following:

1. %Appdata% in the search bar so it automatically goes to this folder.
2. Click AppData, you're probably in the "Roaming" Folder. Alternatively, click the (↑) arrow.
3. Click LocalLow (It can likely be any of the folders here.)
4. The Folder you're looking for is TeamSalvato
5. Delete everything.

In short, the issue is that Steam Cloud doesn't allow for an easy reset. Disable cloud saves by navigating to the Steam game, right click properties, and go to General, disable cloud. Then go to this website link https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage, log in, and control+f "Doki Doki", and click that game...You can see where the pesky cloud saves went.

Good luck, and shame on the developers and Steam. I get that the game breaking the 4th wall is "part" of the game, but frankly I don't care. The game hiding saves in the user directory is behaving like Malware. I cannot emphasize how bad this decision is, particularly for players on Deck or using external drives. All save files should save to Common Folder where games install. Period. Thank you.

[Weight issues Coach]

Originally posted by blitzburns4:

Figured it out after much angst and consternation...For Doki Doki Plus, please do the following:

1. %Appdata% in the search bar so it automatically goes to this folder.
2. Click AppData, you're probably in the "Roaming" Folder. Alternatively, click the (↑) arrow.
3. Click LocalLow (It can likely be any of the folders here.)
4. The Folder you're looking for is TeamSalvato
5. Delete everything.

In short, the issue is that Steam Cloud doesn't allow for an easy reset. Disable cloud saves by navigating to the Steam game, right click properties, and go to General, disable cloud. Then go to this website link https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage, log in, and control+f "Doki Doki", and click that game...You can see where the pesky cloud saves went.

Good luck, and shame on the developers and Steam. I get that the game breaking the 4th wall is "part" of the game, but frankly I don't care. The game hiding saves in the user directory is behaving like Malware. I cannot emphasize how bad this decision is, particularly for players on Deck or using external drives. All save files should save to Common Folder where games install. Period. Thank you.

You're a life savior dude