How To Reset A Game/All The Controls (Completely)

[The Actual Major]

Whenever I buy a new game, I automatically go to the controls to see how the game is played (so I don't have to waste time in-game). Today, however, I messed up worse than I could imagine. Upon changing a few of the controls, I accidentally changed the control for "mouse 2" to "mouse 1". Now, this caused "mouse 1" to be cleared of the control. In short, I have no way of left clicking in the game, and I can't even access the control menu to change it back. Is there any way for me to reset the game completely to reset controls or is there an alternative route I could take in fixing the situation?

Note: I have tried uninstalling and deleting local content. The game is Oxygen Not Included.

-Thanks in Advance,
Major2222

[The Giving One]

I suggest you post in the game forum about that issue. You can right click games in your library and select "view forum". Thanks.

[The Actual Major]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

I suggest you post in the game forum about that issue. You can right click games in your library and select "view forum". Thanks.

I have tried this, but the game is still extremely new so little peopel get responses.

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Major2222:

Originally posted by The Giving One:

I suggest you post in the game forum about that issue. You can right click games in your library and select "view forum". Thanks.

I have tried this, but the game is still extremely new so little peopel get responses.

If you can launch the game from your Steam library fine and have no crashes or errors, and get to the intro menu or video of the game, the game's own forum is your best bet to get help.

In this forum, it may be that no one owns that game, as this is for Steam issues. Just a suggestion.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The config files should be here:
C:\Users\ ... \Documents\Klei
Find settings.ini and delete it, relaunch the game, settings should all be defaults again.

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[The Actual Major]

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

The config files should be here:
C:\Users\ ... \Documents\Klei
Find settings.ini and delete it, relaunch the game, settings should all be defaults again.

Thank you so much! That was exactly what I needed.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Major2222:

Thank you so much! That was exactly what I needed.

Good to know, I actually took a wild guess on that one.
But seeing as how pretty much every game made by KLEI they are having the settings files and such go into that folder + game name sub-folder; it seemed safe to assume it would all be there.

For basically any Retail-Disc or Steam Game; these are the most obvious places to look for files outside of main game files; things like profile data, settings configs, saved-game files, etc.

C:\Users\ ... \Documents
C:\Users\ ... \Documents\My Games
C:\Users\ ... \Saved Games
-or-
C:\Users\Public
-or-
%appdata%
^ Look in the sub-folders of these.

For AppData, that is all hidden by default.
To gain easy access to that folder structure, press Winkey+R and type %appdata% and click OK. Once there, look on the main AppData at the top to get to that main folder. To make AppData always show in User Folders Listing (in Explorer, as a sub-folder to your user folders); go to Folder Options in Windows and change to these:
> *tick* Show hidden files, folder, drives
> *un-tick* Hide file extensions

For others like Origin or Uplay, those locations may differ.
Origin pretty much does it like Steam does with regards to the above files/folders.
However Uplay usually does it differently, such as using this folder structure:
C:\ ... \Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames

[Koru]

I installed a new game and somehow in my genius, changed all the language to Portuguese. I can muddle through Spanish, but I was lost. I uninstalled and reinstalled and the setting were still there. If you want to completely uninstall a game....

I had to basically find the drive where my Steam games are installed. (I have 7 drives). If you have one drive it's (usually) under Users\(~username here)\Steam

I have a dedicated drive just for Steam game files.

Short answer, if you have Windows 7 or later, trust the indexing. Click on the drive, do a search for all the game files and delete it all.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Settings generally do not get removed from a system just by uninstalling a game.
The saved game files and the config files are usually stored elsewhere to which the installer never touches because those files are something the game itself created in a different folder. Most games house these files in your Documents folder or AppData folder structures. Delete the game's config file, then relaunch the game and the game will now load up with all the defaults for visual settings, controls, etc.

[76561199522545333]

I’m having the same issue as the original poster but on steam deck any chance anyone can help with that?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Just go to the folder that houses the games extra config files and delete them. It's that simple. As far the issue the OP had, you could still very easily get to the in-game menus Ike controls using the keyboard and then select restore back to defaults also.

[Emma]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.