Got this game back in 2020 in a bundle, played a little but never finished it. Came back to it the other day and I've been really enjoying it, but I think I just deleted my save by accidentally clicking New Game on the pause menu! I remember thinking that it was awfully risky to have that button there... Is there any way for me to restore my progress?
I'm so sorry to hear your save got deleted!! Unfortunately, I don't think there's a way to recover it; if you were stuck, I might be able to help, but as far as I can tell (after booting up Polymute again for the first time in years and testing things) it's probably been overwritten. For what it's worth, a lot of the puzzles are fairly quick to redo if you can remember the solutions, though that's not much consolation I'm afraid.
All good, I figured that might be the case. I feel like I need to put out some sort of PSA for indie devs to avoid this sort of thing, cause this isn't the first time I've run into it lol.
I wound up just starting from scratch, and the silver lining was that I was able to take better notes this time of what to come back to, so that was nice. Just rolled credits! I missed a couple of the tablets, never really pieced together what they were for, so I wanna go back in and do that. I get the impression there might be a True Ending if I do? Anyway, I'll definitely have plenty more to say once I'm fully done with the game, but I wanted to let you know that I stuck with it and I'm glad I did!
I'm glad you did too!! And yeah, in my more recent games there's a little more friction to stop you from deleting your save altogether, so it's something I figured out eventually!! I do seem to recall something wrt the tablets, though there's also a secondary thing that I won't spoil, which is more complicated (though other folks have figured it out and posted about it in comments iirc)