I really like this game, but I feel it's kinda cheap for me to have unlocked so many things during my numerous voluntary resets while I figured out things that the tutorial doesn't explain. Now that I have a handle on it, I want to reset my unlocks and start fresh.

I've already tried turning off cloud saves and auto-updates, uninstalling while removing local savegames and user data, and reinstalling, but everything is still unlocked. Is there a file/folder I have to manually delete somewhere?

I don't have the game installed, so I can't check if there's some kind of way inside the game to reset the profile.

Anyway, I see that my save files are called like this (maybe the number could be different from yours):

PlayerProfile2.sav
Savegame2.sav

So, try to do, in this order:

1) Disable cloud saves

2) Search inside "%appdata%\.." folder (it's the folder previous to %appdata%, but search inside all subfolders) if you can find those somewhere, and rename them or move them somewhere else

3) Start the game and see if there's already a profile, savegames

IF NOT --> You are done !

ELSE most probably (for some reason) the cloud is still working... but maybe it's possible to hijack it:

4) Do a new save inside the game, so you can check if the folder you found is the correct one, and it should contain files with the actual date

5) Launch the game, then immediately ALT+TAB and go to the folder with the saves

6) rename or move those files

7) ALT+TAB to return to the game, go on playing and see what happens

If the game doesn't complain and asks you to make a profile, most probably everything will work ok from now on.

If instead the game loads the profile immediately after launch, maybe you'll have some errors, and this will not work.