how do you delete or reset the game entirely? I've tried to delete it in 'Saves' but it always comes back.
Doing "New Game" from the main menu has you do a fresh playthrough. But also checking the \AppData\Roaming\RenPy\CabinByTheLake
and deleting the save files in it can help
I've tried but the saves are still there and the file comes back, I don't know how to fully reset.
Evil got you very close, but the final part they missed was that you also need to delete the persistent file in the same location.