Please help. Pretty please.

[EddieHyde912]

I want to play Binding of Isaac: Repentance, but I want to start from square one, meaning I want to reset all my game progress, but I don't know how... can someone please help?

[Phosphophyllite]

What do you mean with "square one"?

[Nazemec]

On the save selection screen, select an empty file instead of your usual one.
If you don't have any, feel free to use the "delete file" option on the same screen, then select which save you want to delete.

[EddieHyde912]

Nazemec, thank you, but that is not exactly what I meant... I meant like resetting ALL game progress...

[Nazemec]

Originally posted by x_Mr_Hyde_x:

Nazemec, thank you, but that is not exactly what I meant... I meant like resetting ALL game progress...

"All game progress" is within the saves. What else do you mean?

[Phosphophyllite]

Originally posted by Nazemec:

Originally posted by x_Mr_Hyde_x:

Nazemec, thank you, but that is not exactly what I meant... I meant like resetting ALL game progress...

"All game progress" is within the saves. What else do you mean?

Achievements i guess ┐(´ー｀)┌
It is certainly confusing

[EddieHyde912]

Nazemec, I don't mean JUST the save files, I also mean everything else (For example, all unlocked items, characters, challenges, etc.)

[Clash]

I would recommend looking into steam achievement manager, but use it at your own risk. I don't know if it will fully reset Isaac for you, but I think resetting all achievements and starting a new save should in theory reset everything to square one for you.

[Phosphophyllite]

Originally posted by x_Mr_Hyde_x:

Nazemec, I don't mean JUST the save files, I also mean everything else (For example, all unlocked items, characters, challenges, etc.)

You reset everything deleting the save file. 乁( •_• )ㄏ

[Nazemec]

Originally posted by x_Mr_Hyde_x:

Nazemec, I don't mean JUST the save files, I also mean everything else (For example, all unlocked items, characters, challenges, etc.)

Unlocked items/characters/challenges/whatever are stored in the save files. If you open a never-touched save file or erase one, you won't have anything unlocked on that save file.
Absolutely no data is shared between saves. If you unlock something on save 1, it only exists on save 1, you won't find it on save 2 or 3 until you unlock it there too.

That's the whole point of having multiple saves. This applies to all games in existence.

If instead you somehow mean the Steam achievements, they are not part of the game and do not represent stuff unlocked on all saves. Use SAM to remove them.
Still, you can have all achievements you want and start a new save. You still won't have anything on that save and can unlock things there.
The only way to know if something is unlocked on a save is the secrets menu of that save. Fresh files have none.

[EddieHyde912]

Originally posted by Nazemec:

Originally posted by x_Mr_Hyde_x:

Nazemec, I don't mean JUST the save files, I also mean everything else (For example, all unlocked items, characters, challenges, etc.)

Unlocked items/characters/challenges/whatever are stored in the save files. If you open a never-touched save file or erase one, you won't have anything unlocked on that save file.
Absolutely no data is shared between saves. If you unlock something on save 1, it only exists on save 1, you won't find it on save 2 or 3 until you unlock it there too.

That's the whole point of having multiple saves. This applies to all games in existence.

If instead you somehow mean the Steam achievements, they are not part of the game and do not represent stuff unlocked on all saves. Use SAM to remove them.
Still, you can have all achievements you want and start a new save. You still won't have anything on that save and can unlock things there.
The only way to know if something is unlocked on a save is the secrets menu of that save. Fresh files have none.

Ohhhhhhhhh... sorry, I did not know that was the case... my bad

[Senator Jim Death]

Originally posted by Nazemec:

That's the whole point of having multiple saves. This applies to all games in existence.

Now that we're in the era of the metanarrative, I'm sure there must be a counterexample. Undertale is probably one.