I have to be honest and say I haven't encountered this during testing T-T
The only thing I can troubleshoot at this point is that it should be an engine issue, the engine automatically auto-reads the variable(Like if your computer used to run other games made with the renpy engine like ddlc as well) .....
I've reuploaded a version that allows people to restart the game in the eclipse-page
The archives are interoperable, there shouldn't be any major issues with continuing with other archives