There are a ton of reasons you might want to start over in Dragon's Dogma 2. Maybe you just hated the look of your character once you loaded in. Maybe you made a huge mistake that will mess up the rest of your playthrough (what with NPC deaths being permanent and all). Or maybe you've just completed it and want another go. So how do you start over?
How to Start a New Game
Poke around the menus in Dragon's Dogma 2 all you want; you won't find a start new game button. As of launch, the only way to start an entirely new save is to manually go into the files, or storage on console, and manually delete the save files. Make sure you also clear out the cloud saves so they don't automatically back them up.
On Xbox that means going to your Storage, selecting Manage Games, selecting Dragon's Dogma 2, and choose Saved Data. Again, make sure to choose the option to delete save files everywhere, not just locally.
The subreddit has also recently discovered this and isn't super happy about it. "I cannot believe we have people in here defending the fact that you can't start a new game," says Starguardace. Meanwhile blakeavon explains how to do this on PlayStation 5, "On PS5 you just have to delete your save file. Annoying but easy."
If you're on Steam, it's a little more involved, but SageGaming has offered some help:
If on steam -- Found it:
<Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\2054970\remote
Make sure you turn off steam cloud for the game or it auto-repopulates the data when you launch the game again. (took five times deleting it before I thought to check that)
Edit: PSA! This also deletes your stored character data from the character creator.
We'll keep you updated if the game is patched to let you do this more easily. In the meantime, this is the only way for you to do so, short of making all new accounts on the consoles.
