Hanako Games

Deleting all my achievements

#1 by GSN22 - May 9 2015

How do I delete all my in-game achievements?

I'd like to start the game over completely from scratch and unlock everything from the start. (mainly to see all the new stuff added in I may have otherwise missed)

Re: Deleting all my achievements

#2 by hanako - May 9 2015

On Steam you can't.

On your local copy, if you look for your savegame folder and delete everything in it except your license key, it will wipe out the knowledge of things you've unlocked.

Re: Deleting all my achievements

#3 by GSN22 - May 10 2015

Thanks! May need to Redownload it again. Looking at some topics, apparently a lot has changed. (Talarist is actually more redeeming and less of a complete psychopath?)

I've actually tried deleting every last LLTQ file I had then redownloading it but Steam apparently backs up all relevant data to a save cloud....


Pretty convenient I have to say, though this is one of the rare cases where it's proven inconvenient.

Re: Deleting all my achievements

#4 by hanako - May 10 2015

No, there is no save cloud! You need to look at your actual savegame folder and not the steam install folder. Where that is depends on what OS you are using.

Re: Deleting all my achievements

#5 by GSN22 - May 10 2015

I actually deleted all my copies of LLTQ on my computer, including the non-Steam one. Can I please get another download for it?

Re: Deleting all my achievements

#6 by GSN22 - May 12 2015

Okay I'm in the Long Live the Queen folder in my Steam Apps folder.

I see folders for "common," "game", "lib" and "renpy." I'm not sure what folder the saved games are in or what the name of the folder/file is.

I'm also using Windows 7 Professional, 2009.

Re: Deleting all my achievements

#7 by Spiky Caterpillar - May 12 2015

Go into the location bar of an Explorer window; type %APPDATA%\RenPy\LongLiveTheQueen\ . (Other Ren'Py games' saves also live under %APPDATA%\RenPy on Windows)

'persistent' is the file you want to delete.

Re: Deleting all my achievements

#8 by Spiky Caterpillar - May 12 2015

You'll also want to remove 'achievements' (though IIRC that only is actually read back if you're running in Steam, in which case the cheeves will also be regenerated from your Steam account and so it won't actually make a difference.)

Re: Deleting all my achievements

#9 by GSN22 - May 12 2015

Thanks! Deaths and epilogues are now gone but, alas, achievements still remain. Oh well.

Re: Deleting all my achievements

#10 by Spiky Caterpillar - May 12 2015

If you started a Steam version, it'll get the achievements from your Steam account and put them back in. (For extra confusion points, this is actually nothing to do with the save cloud API - we don't have save cloud, we DO have cheeve synchronization.)

Re: Deleting all my achievements

#11 by hanako - May 12 2015

.... which is the first he's told me of it.

Re: Deleting all my achievements

#12 by GSN22 - May 13 2015

I did it with a downloaded from Hanako site copy and hurray it worked!

Never thought I'd be happy to delete years worth of saved games, heh. Then again, now that everything in the game's changed so much I need some way to measure progress when doing everything again.

Re: Deleting all my achievements

#13 by tomi - Jan 1 2023

I found a way to reset achievements for Long Live The Queen and stop synchronizing local achievements to and from Steam. I apologize for reviving an old thread, but I hope it will be useful for the next time somebody else googles it in the future.

1. Open the game folder. Find a folder named "game" inside it. For me it was D:\Steam\steamapps\common\LongLiveTheQueen\game
2. Create an empty text file and name it steam.rpy. This will disable the Steam integration.
3. Open your save folder. For me it was C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\RenPy\LongLiveTheQueen
4. If you see a file named persistent, delete it. This will reset all your persistent data (deaths, epilogues, settings...).
5. If you see a file named achievements, delete it too.

Special thanks to unrpyc and to Game Resources Viewer.

I also posted it here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/251990/discussions/0/1751276319482793877/#c3735204542171148256