I had bought Psychonauts here on GOG on November 14th 2013, even though I have a boxed copy, because I truly think it's one of the best video games ever made and wanted to show my support to both Double Fine and GOG for making it available at such a steal of a price, for a bunch of new people that might have missed it the first time around. I installed it as soon as I bought it, since I trust GOG games way more than my disc copies, and the game ran perfectly fine and with no issue whatsoever. Bearing that in mind, I never updated my version, because the one I had was running flawlessly already.

The thing is, my old computer just died on me and I've been installing as much GOG games as I can on my even-older desktop, which hasn't been used in years, and Psychonauts was one of the first titles I had to have in this machine. I downloaded the newest version GOG has, and though the game seems to run as smoothly as my previous version, when I was tweaking the settings before starting the game, I noticed I was playing on "Daniel"'s session (the session name always appears on the top right of the Journal/Settings Menu), which made me think the game came with a save from some guy who has been playing it -- Daniel had just finished defeating the Den Mother, something I found out after selecting Continue instead of New Game.

My questions are: is this standard in this version of the game, or just an error, something the GOG team or the Double Fine folks overlooked? Because I feel like having bought a second-hand product, still with its previous owner's data and save on it, and when I buy something from a digital store I want to have as close to a "mint" product as I can possibly do, with things being digital, and all that. I'm pretty sure I had no saves under any "Daniel" on this computer, so the issue is most definitely not on my end. Is it some kind of easter egg? Would I get something special by finishing Daniel's playthrough of the game? By now, I overwrote the save with my own, Daniel was occupying the third available bunk, which is now groze's bunk.

Any thoughts on this? Has this even happened to anyone else?

Unfortunately, every DRM-free version of the game (both GOG and Humble Store) have that Daniel profile. Daniel is one of the devs from Double Fine, and I believe that save was used for testing or bug fixing.

I must say that I'm surprise GOG didn't remove it during QC and I agree with you in that it feels like buying a second-hand product.

I think it is sloppy. GOG should have removed the saved profiles.

BTW, Daniel's profile reconfigures the gamepad control scheme; it switches around some buttons. So, if you use a gamepad and load up with the game with those profiles, your game will have Daniel's control scheme, even if you do not load his saved game. His gamepad settings are different from the default/intuitive controls, (which are shown in the Xbox user manual for the game.) You need to remove all three profiles to restore the default control scheme.