Remembering variables even if the player reloads the game

[OldNoEyes]

I thought it would be terrifying if the player makes a decision, decides to choose something else, reloads the game, and an NPC still remembers the choice they made previously and says something about it.

To be clear, I'm not trying to block rollback--I'm just trying to find a way to increment and store variables in a place that won't be affected by loading saves.

Is there a way to do this?

[zankizuna]

look into persistent variables
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/persiste ... 20variable

[OldNoEyes]

Zankizuna, you're a goddamn champion. I've been fiddling around for 2 hours trying to figure this out.

Thanks so much!

[Imperf3kt]

Note that persistent works across saves as well.
If the player begins a new game, it'll also have the sane variable.

You may need to think of a way to reset the variable on a new game (without resetting it in the existing game) depending on how your game works.