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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' in 5.1 introduced a New Game + feature which lets you redo various storylines while retaining your current job level and equipment. Any of the instanced content will enforce a level sync cap and you earn no rewards for completing the quests, but it lets you replay previous parts of the game without rolling a new character.

* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'': Beating the game allows you to keep your Harmonixer forms from the very beginning....even the ultimately powerful Seraphic Radiance. Only problem is obtaining enough SP to do so.

* ''Manga/AssasinationClassroom'': this is used as a metaphore to explain how abusive Nagisa's mother is: Hiromi intends to control Nagisa's decisions so that he can follow the path through life that she had wanted for herself, but was unable to follow through with, without any regard for Nagisa's feelings on the matter, like an NPC in a game. Koro-sensei's advice to Nagisa is to discover his own game route.

** ''VideoGame/Persona5'' keep your social parameter stats, Persona compendium, cash, and equipment. You'll also unlock the ability to fuse a new Ultimate Persona, the option to fight a new {{Superboss}}, and endgame LevelUpAtIntimacy5 Confidant bonuses from any ally you spoke to on your last day in Tokyo.

* ''Anime/Persona4GoldenTheAnimation'' is basically ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'' on an NG+. Yu does any number of things that his ''[=P4TA=]'' self would not consider or be capable of doing, such as walking directly into the TV world, and using high-end Persona attacks before the first dungeon is even over.

* After completing a ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' game once, players can continue on to the higher difficulty modes while keeping their weapons, upgrades and items. One exception is the [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry1 first game]]'s Easy Automatic mode, where only another Easy Automatic game could be played afterward. ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2'', ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'', ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'', ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'' and ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' still have New Game+ but do not suffer from the restrictive condition of the first game's Easy Automatic mode.

* After completing ''VideoGame/{{Ghostrunner}}'', you can start over with all of the upgrades and power-ups you have in the endgame. You can also activate the new difficulty setting that populates earlier levels with late-game enemies.

* In ''Videogame/MadnessProjectNexus2'' beating Arena Mode unlocks an Imprint, which grants you a bonus to all of your stats that increases every time you beat the mode. It also unlocks newer Origins, most of which are PurposelyOverpowered.

* The ''VideoGame/DoomII'' mod ''VideoGame/TotalChaos'' has a New Game Plus that can be accessed after completing the game once... but how it's not how it usually works or accessed. By inputting a code obtained from the credits into a keypad at the very beginning of the game, you get ''a warning'' that you're accessing New Game Plus. Continuing forces you to complete the entire game without your VoiceWithAnInternetConnection, the fog is red, completely harmless item pickups and tutorials are converted into {{Schmuck Bait}}s and the player is given a short grace period before they get chased by the Hunter, an ImplacableMan that will always OneHitKill you.

* ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'' gives you the option of starting a New Game+ after obtaining the True Ending. You have the option of changing your difficulty on New Game+, and you can keep most items and Shards except for progression-related items (including most boss Shards, the Aqua Stream Shard, and the Aegis Plate) and the books you checked out from O.D. Your new save file is also emblazoned with a yellow number indicating the number of loops.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', as mentioned above, is the TropeNamer. You unlock New Game Plus mode by defeating the final boss, Lavos. You keep anything that's not a [[PlotCouponThatDoesSomething key]] [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement item]] in the new game, as well as retain all of your levels and EXP. This means you can fight the final boss almost anytime, required to get the various endings. The DS version of ''Chrono Trigger'' also adds {{Superboss}}es that can only be fought in New Game Plus.
** ''Chrono Trigger'' is interesting in how the gameplay loop changes after New Game+: The early game enemies are now a waste of time to fight, offering pittances in money and experience compared to what the party already has, and so the player can better appreciate their on-screen movements and patterns when trying to bypass these fights, letting the other half of its encounter system shine and avoiding common New Game+ pitfalls.

* ''VideoGame/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 RPG Maker game, ''VideoGame/TheGrayGarden'' has a few minor bonuses on the second playthrough (aside from the ''Bonus Room''), such as not having to collect any apples in Apple Park to proceed, a ''666 ticket'' item in Froze's house that summons a passing demon to help in battle, a side area in the Evening Forest that was formerly blocked by plants will also unlock, a Mogeko there will give Yosafire the choice to get her party fully maxed out and receive rare Prosciutto equipment which makes an already fairly easy game into a total joke in terms of difficulty.

** Extra Mode is unlocked in ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'' after you beat the normal mode for the first time. Here, there are much more enemies, bosses have new patterns, attacks, and different color schemes, and Kirby has half his normal health. Also, there's one additional boss fight. Beat that and you unlock the True Arena, a variant of the normal [[BossRush Arena]] where every boss is the EX version, healing items are much less effective, and there's a BonusBoss near the end.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' lets you keep you Al Bhed primers from previous playthroughs, if you go to the Al Bhed sphere as soon as you land in Spira. If you mastered the language in a previous playthrough, this makes early scenes easier to understand. It also lets you get the special item from Rin's quest earlier. Furthermore, the non-American released International version of the game contains a glitch in the end-game that allows the player to replay the last third of the story with all their new weapons, powers, and equipment. It is performed by beating a BonusBoss and then glitching your way past an [[NPCRoadblock NPC that blocks]] the [[spoiler:now-destroyed Al Bhed home]]. Accessing this normally restricted area sets off an EventFlag, and the game acts as if you're visiting there for the first time. Most players take great pleasure in killing ThatOneBoss in one hit.

** ''VideoGame/CrisisCoreFinalFantasyVII'' has a New Game Plus as well. You can load up your completed save file, which lets you not only pick which difficulty you want to play on, but keep all of your Materia, stats, and levels. The only thing you don't get to keep is your special attacks, but with these stats you'd be killing grunts with single hits. And it makes [[spoiler:the final fight with Genesis]] a total joke. The big reason to do this is [[spoiler: the side mission against the goddess of the world, [[BonusBoss Minerva]], who is a lot stronger than Genesis.]]

** ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' has a very fun, ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''-esque form of New Game+, triggered by a glitch in the game. [[https://www.gamefaqs.com/snes/588741-super-metroid/faqs/19122 More info here.]] In contrast, ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'', the original versions of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' and ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'', ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'', ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'' and ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' only have unlockable higher difficulties -- but these come with the added bonus of an item counter and timer added to the map screen, making HundredPercentCompletion and {{speedrun}}s that little bit easier.

* In ''Videogame/MadnessProjectNexus2'' beating Arena Mode unlocks an Imprint, which grants you a bonus to all of your stats that increases every time you beat the mode. It also unlocks newer Origins, most of which are PurposelyOverpowered.

** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'', getting 120 stars will unlock the 120 Green Stars, and getting those will unlock the Grandmaster Galaxy. Beating it will unlock "The Perfect Run".

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]] or [[BagOfHolding items won beforehand]]. There are several benefits for doing this:

** ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' has a very fun, ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''-esque form of New Game+, triggered by a glitch in the game. [[https://www.gamefaqs.com/snes/588741-super-metroid/faqs/19122 More info here.]] In contrast, ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'', the original versions of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' and ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'', ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'' and ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'' only have unlockable higher difficulties -- but these come with the added bonus of an item counter and timer added to the map screen, making HundredPercentCompletion and {{speedrun}}s that little bit easier.

* Every game from ''Franchise/SilentHill'' series. In another playthrough, you can obtain extra weapons and different endings, which weren't possible to get in the first play.

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* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey III: The Drowned City'' allows you to start the plot over with your experienced guild, enabling you to pursue the MultipleEndings and their rewards however you choose, as well as unlock both the Shogun and Yggdroid (which are normally {{mutually exclusive| Party Members}}). Subsequent games in the series retain the feature, and in them you can also choose exactly what out of your items, characters, and map you want to carry over to the next run.

** Given the hundreds of Souls found in the ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow'' games, a New Game+ was almost a necessity.

** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' allows you to transfer all of your Keyblades and selfie poses from another save file, meaning that this time around, you don't have to do the minigames needed to acquire the optional Keyblades. However, the Keyblades are all reset to their base level, including the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Ultima Weapon]]. As of Version 1.07-9, you also start the game with the six bonus abilities that are unlocked after the credits roll.

* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' gets a New Game+ feature added through the Challenge Rooms DLC, which allows you to replay the game again with all of your plasmids, tonics, and upgrades from importing your save file. However, playing New Game+ will not allow you to earn Trophies or Achievements at all. So if you missed any during your first run, you have to replay an older save to unlock (assuming you have multiple saves to begin with). Originally, the Challenge Rooms DLC ($9.99 USD) was exclusive to only [=PlayStation=] 3, but as of the ''[=BioShock=]: Ultimate Rapture Edition'' re-release of ''[=BioShock=]'' and its sequel, the Challenge Rooms became available for the Xbox 360 version as well specifically through this compilation. The only difference the [=PlayStation=] 3 that the version's of the DLC has over the Xbox 360 is that it has extra Trophies.

** ''VideoGame/MegaManX7'' and ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX8 X8]]'' introduces New Game+ for the ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX X]]'' series. The former allows players to carry over Power-up Chip upgrades and keep X (with and with his Glide Armor) into a new playthrough. The latter varies by difficulty: Easy mode only allows Metals to be carried over, while Normal and Hard modes also allows Rare Metal upgrades to be carried over along with the ability to unlock each Maverick Hunter's [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity+1 Armor]] without the use of a cheat code by meeting certain conditions. The Navigators (Alia, Layer, and Pallette) can also be unlocked as secret playable characters on New Game+ in ''X8''.

* New Game+ from '''Mega Man'' SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/MightyNo9'' includes two extra difficulty modes, "for those who want an even Mightier challenge".