Somehow my angle brackets got eaten up in the comment. You’ll want to go to C:\Users\ —your PC username— \AppData\Roaming\GogiiGames\ArchieRiverdaleRescue and rename the report-olddate_time.des to just ”report.des”

Losing my saved progress occasionally happens to me too. To troubleshoot, go to C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\GogiiGames\ArchieRiverdaleRescue
There should be a localstorage.txt, report.des, and *hopefully*, something like report06-08-2023_22-39-14.des which is your old save file that somehow got overwritten with the current report.des. This tends to happen to my PC somehow when ext hard disks are connected and I launch the game.
If so, delete localstorage.txt and rename the old report.des to ‘report.des’, and restart game. that should do the trick.

I finished the game over 8 months with lots of off periods since there’s no penalty for not continuously playing and friendships/relationships btw characters don’t deteriorate, making it a very chill casual game to keep around on your PC. At level 25, the map is fully unlocked and XP now earns soda so you’ll be able to slowly unlock all the paywalled characters / costumes if you so wish. Sadly you don’t get any achievement or rewards when riverdale rating reaches 100%.

Maybe you can use an emulator?

I know no one cares about this (why would they) and it’s probably not worth the effort , but is there anyway I can get a modded version where I can get unlimited money, and sodas, and energy? Or if nothing else a 100% save game so I can see what Riverdale would eventually look like?