History Main / NewGamePlus

* In the original ''Franchise/TombRaider'' series (with the exception of Chronicles and Angel of Darkness) the player could start a second run with all their weapons, flares and medipacks right after finishing a normal game, on the PSX versions they also unlock a level select option. The second series by crystal dynamics could also emulate a New Game+ option via unlockable cheats, the Reboot trilogy brings back a more standard form of New Game+.

** ''[=NieR=]''s New Game Plus allows the players to [[spoiler:understand the Shade's speech as well as hear Tyrann]] along with the usual extra endings. The result is that it makes the entire game a mix between FridgeHorror and YouBastard. It also starts you at the half way point of the game. Nier and the others will also comment on weapons received through playing the main quest that he already has because of the New Game+.

* The NES ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'' started the game over but with Pit as powered up as he was at the end of the game after the end credits.

* Once you've completed ''VideoGame/{{Insanity}}'' for the first time, the second playthrough adds flashback scenes and monologues from the BigBad, to further flesh out the backstory or add context to the plot. It's also the only way to get the second good ending.

** The bright side of NG+? You can use the big head mode and extra costumes without beating the story. However, Big head and Skins can be toggled in Knight without any limitations other than requiring a certain patch.

* In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', starting over a new life carries over any information you've learned about your friends in your past life, but you have to encounter them again to unlock them on your friend list. It also lets you pick a 4th birthday gift in the prologue, which serves as your starting gear besides the Sun Medallion, and your dad also reads you a story of your choice, which gives you a bonus card.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': The UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS remake implements the ''Master Quest'' version of the game as an unlockable mode. In addition to having the dungeons altered, the entire world map is flipped as in the Wii version of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'', and enemies do twice as much damage as before. The mode was originally added to a special [=GameCube=] release of the game, where it was not an example of the trope, as it was available from the start. (In that version, the world was not flipped and enemies did the same damage; the only change was in the dungeons.)

** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' adds this ability to [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime the first]] and [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes second]] games, neither of which had a New Game Plus in their original UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube incarnations.

* ''VideoGame/Ghostbusters1984'' on the Commodore 64 and UsefulNotes/AmstradCPC. When you reach Zuul with more than starting money, you will get a "bank account number", which was a PasswordSave for the accumulated money. You receive the account number regardless of whether or not you succeed. Playing again with the money you earned was the only way to get the fourth car (which wasn't really worth it) or the third car and better equipment.

** ''Demi Kids'' (a LighterAndSofter ''Shin Megami Tensei'' game for UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance) actually had ''three'' options available to you once you beat the game. The first let you [[EndgamePlus go back in time to just before fighting the boss]]. The second was the New Game Plus mode, where you started from the beginning, but with all your demons, inventory, level, etcetera--however, your partner would be returned to its first stage, so doing this over and over again is the only way to see all its stages. ''Finally,'' the game offered you a PlayableEpilogue, which not only [[spoiler: brings all your friends back from the dead]], but allows you to get [[spoiler: [[OlympusMons muddafriggin' SATAN]]]] as one of your {{Mons}}.

** The game has the Victory Lap in ''Afterbirth+'', which triggers when you defeat The Lamb at the end of Dark Room. You're given the option to begin a fresh seed and a fresh run of the game, but with your full arsenal from your last game as well as your stats, with the tradeoff being the game is now on the Hard difficulty, enemies deal a full heart of damage right out of the gate instead of starting with The Womb, and you can't get any more completion marks or achievements[[note]]save for one that requires doing Victory Laps[[/note]]. As long as you keep taking The Negative route and fighting The Lamb, you can keep doing Victory Laps and adding to your constantly bloating stats and inventory, which will make your character an outright PhysicalGod after the second attempt.

** The game has the Victory Lap in ''Afterbirth+'', which triggers when you defeat The Lamb at the end of Dark Room. You're given the option to begin a fresh seed and a fresh run of the game, but with your full arsenal from your last game as well as your stats, with the tradeoff being the game is now on the Hard difficulty and enemies deal a full heart of damage right out of the gate instead of starting with The Womb. As long as you keep taking The Negative route and fighting The Lamb, you can keep doing Victory Laps and adding to your constantly bloating stats and inventory, which will make your character an outright PhysicalGod after the second attempt.
** The ''Repentance'' DLC adds a rare active item called the R-Key. It can only be used once, but when you do, it sends you all the way back to Basement I with your loadout ''and progress'' all intact. This allows you to tackle (and likely [[CurbStompBattle steamroll]]) multiple final bosses (and thus get extra completion marks) in one run.

* ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'', much like its VisualNovel predecessors, allows you to replay each chapter after they are completed, keeping the skills, upgrades, and collectibles from the previous playthroughs, and allowing the player the opportunity to improve their scores for each chapter's challenges. This is especially useful as most items become PermanentlyMissedContent if you miss them the first time through.

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': The first game, ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' has an analogous "School Mode" and ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' has a bonus post-game "Island Mode". You have 51 days to see all the characters' "Free Time Events" that you haven't seen in the main game; you can also assign characters to collect resources and build stuff, which rewards you with tickets to unlock bonus scenes. You can replay the Island/School Mode any number of times; the number of Free Time Events already seen is carried over, as are the characters' leveled-up skills at collecting resources.

New Game+ is the option of starting a new game by accessing a previous finished game, allowing you to start with improved stats, [[AndYourRewardIsClothes new costumes]], [[BagOfHolding items won beforehand]], [[ResetMilestones or milestones that make things more convenient]]. There are several benefits for doing this:

* Similarly, some games lock their most exotic or experimental equipment behind New Game +, especially if they break the game or, inversely, don't work as well as the rest.
* It gives the player a chance to use the BraggingRightsReward on something more significant than leftover {{Mooks}}, allowing you to see [[GameBreaker just how powerful it really is]] ([[AwesomeButImpractical or isn't]]). Such rewards are typically awarded at the very end of the game, and thus would otherwise see little actual use.

* New Game + is also generally a good excuse to replay the game in a more convenient fashion, such as making different decisions in [[ChoiceAndConsequenceSystem choice-based games]], or turning on fun cheats like filters and invincibility that don't unlock until you've beaten the game once.
* If a game lets you carry over your cosmetics or equipment, you can replay the early hours with the look you prefer the characters to be in.

** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' goes so far as to have "Round 1" marked on the save slot during your first playthrough, as well as awarding some nice bonuses for game completion that can be used in round 2. And believe us, ripping through the game's early enemies with a fully upgraded Line Gun is ''incredibly'' satisfying.

* After beating ''VideoGame/FatalFrame1'' in Normal Mode and getting the canon ending you unlock Hard mode with a bonus ending. And you can reload all of your cleared games, including the Easy Mode ones. When you reload a cleared game you get to keep ALL power-ups, documents, items, and other stuff you collected in the previous game, including the bonus costumes.

** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' gives you the Patriot rifle, which has an infinite ammo supply [[HandWave because the feeding mechanism is shaped like the infinity symbol]], after you clear your first playthrough. It also features alternate conditions for getting some of the unlockables, such as acquiring one of every edible item, catching and keeping the Tsuchinoko, or shooting every toy frog in the game; extremely helpful as the only other way to unlock these are beating the game with no alerts, no deaths, no kills, under five hours, etc. One of the new unlockable items is the extremely gamebreaking EZ Gun, a tranquilizer pistol with a laser sight, a suppressor that never runs out, and somehow bumps the player's camo index all the way up to 80% whenever it's equipped. You can also start a new game with Ocelot's [[RevolversAreJustBetter Single Action Army]], assuming you [[spoiler:picked the right gun in the duel at the very end.]]

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' (and its SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''):
** The games all have enemies become noticeably more difficult in the first New Game Plus run with slight increases in difficulty afterwards, up until your 7th cycle where enemies stop getting buffed up. To make things slightly easier, New Game Plus allows characters to retain all of their equipment (barring key items), stats, and Souls/Blood Echoes, and in the first game bonfires retain their kindling level. In most games, at least three runs are required to obtain every achievement in the game. Depending on the game, NG+ can either just be a harder version of a regular new game (as is the case with ''Dark Souls I'' and ''Bloodborne'') or have changes that shake up the game a bit.