We’ve heard of this happening before but haven’t been able to figure out what exactly causes it. I think we narrowed it down to Russian users using Windows or Renpy not being able to save its persistent variable in the renpy save data directory in appdata.
Are you running Russian language windows?
If you are, one user gave us these instructions in order to fix this issue on their computer:
- Start new game, unlock enough to use reset button in branches. (in the top left)
- Go to game folder and start the game with admin rights and it should fix the bug.
- Just open the game with steam as usual.
It does seem to be related to not being able to create files in the appdata folder.