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id: rpg-grind--new-game-plus
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title: New Game Plus
summary: >-
  Replay preserves specified progress. FFXIV’s New Game+ variant replays
  unlocked story chapters without resetting the character or repeating quest
  rewards.
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    title: Final Fantasy XIV
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    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: New Game Plus
    description: >-
      Replay preserves specified progress. FFXIV’s New Game+ variant replays
      unlocked story chapters without resetting the character or repeating quest
      rewards.
    image:
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          label: The player selects a story chapter to replay
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        Before replay, explain what carries over, what resets and whether
        rewards repeat.
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      - title: Final Fantasy XIV
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          https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/3a23a8ba13b2c4152681ec4fa5716915b851002f
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  Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on
  2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules
  and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are
  preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the
  specifically described released-game observations; design variants and
  scenarios are hypothetical.
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---
# New Game Plus

id: rpg-grind--new-game-plus
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/rpg-grind--new-game-plus
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/rpg-grind--new-game-plus/

Replay preserves specified progress. FFXIV’s New Game+ variant replays unlocked story chapters without resetting the character or repeating quest rewards.

## At a glance

![FFXIV New Game+: choosing an already unlocked story chapter](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/rpg-final-newgame.webp)

[Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/3a23a8ba13b2c4152681ec4fa5716915b851002f) · © Square Enix. Publisher-distributed screenshot or documentation image; all rights reserved. Excluded from portal MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. The player selects a story chapter to replay

- Before replay, explain what carries over, what resets and whether rewards repeat.

- [Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/3a23a8ba13b2c4152681ec4fa5716915b851002f)

## How it works

A completed campaign restarts with specified progression carryover and changed conditions.

## Variants

### Variants

<a id="new-game-plus-options"></a>

- Carry some equipment into a new cycle. <a id="new-game-plus-option-1"></a>
- Unlock new difficulties after the ending. <a id="new-game-plus-option-2"></a>
- Collect mutually exclusive outcomes across playthroughs. <a id="new-game-plus-option-3"></a>

## Design example

A hero retains skills but restarts with tougher encounters and new rewards.

## Context and limits

A systematic RPG grind reference: 110 mechanics and 330 variants in 18 sections. Four layers answer different questions: what the player repeats, what develops, how rewards arrive and what constrains the loop. It covers single-player RPGs, ARPGs, MMORPGs and adjacent management and accumulation systems. Every mechanic has an explanation, variants and a hypothetical example; coverage, combinations and verified game observations follow the catalog.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on 2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the specifically described released-game observations; design variants and scenarios are hypothetical.

- [Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/3a23a8ba13b2c4152681ec4fa5716915b851002f) (id: source-b8449cde047f4282)

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