Restart game from beginning

[goodgoobilygoop]

Is there any way to reset the game to the complete blank slate it starts with? I bought this game for my nephew, but played through the first few missions myself, to make sure there was no age-inappropriate content (he's 8 years old, already building robots IRL, thought this would be a fun game for him, not to mention a semi-realistic introduction to what real engineering is like).

Now I want to reset the game to a blank slate, but it seems there is no way to do this, not even by deleting the game files with cloud sync turned off. Is there any way to do this?

[Ranko]

If you're using windows, you'll have a save file in your documents folder (documents/my games/SHENZHEN IO. Try deleting this and see what happens (too scared to test it myself, sorry ^^;)

[Aperture]

All of your stats and completion info is in save.dat in C:\Users\[User]\Documents\My Games\SHENZHEN IO\[steam id]. Turn off sync and delete that file. If you want to get rid of your solutions delete all of the .txt files in that folder as well.

[goodgoobilygoop]

It's Linux. I'll GREP for the directory and see if deleting it does anything.

What's the worst that could happen?

[krispykrem]

Windows: My Documents\My Games\SHENZHEN IO
Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/SHENZHEN IO
Linux: ~/.local/share/SHENZHEN IO

[goodgoobilygoop]

Thanks! I hate having to GREP the /proc directory... it always takes forever, but you can't really leave any stone unturned when you have no idea where the files might be stored.

[PsyBlade]

Originally posted by goodgoobilygoop:

Thanks! I hate having to GREP the /proc directory... it always takes forever, but you can't really leave any stone unturned when you have no idea where the files might be stored.

When searching for real files "/dev" "/sys" & "/proc" can be safely ignored.
"find" might be better suited.
Programs run by users rarely store user data outside "~".

I would have gone for
find ~ -iname "*shenzhen*"

or if that fails
find / -xdev -iname "*shenzhen*" -writable

[goodgoobilygoop]

Happy to report I found the directory, removed all the files, and SHENZHEN I/O restarted from a clear slate. Thanks everyone for the help!

Originally posted by PsyBlade:

When searching for real files "/dev" "/sys" & "/proc" can be safely ignored.
"find" might be better suited.
Programs run by users rarely store user data outside "~".

I would have gone for
find ~ -iname "*shenzhen*"

or if that fails
find / -xdev -iname "*shenzhen*" -writable

Yeah, I'm kind of a neophyte at Linux. Just experienced enough to realize that Steam almost never plays by those rules, scattering save files all over /tmp and /usr for other games I've installed.

[Edelguard]

Originally posted by krispykrem:

Windows: My Documents\My Games\SHENZHEN IO
Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/SHENZHEN IO
Linux: ~/.local/share/SHENZHEN IO

Could we please have a "delete save" button in the settings menu?

[Zaphod]

Or multiple ongoing profiles. I have buddies / colleagues that I would like to have a go at this.