I heard thst Choice of Rebels is one of the stars of the CoG library, but I am struggling hard with it. I’m on my third attempt at just the Winter chapter and am about to throw in the towel. The first time things went badly so I decided to try again. I got almost to the end, and when I came back the next day I got shoved back to the start of Winter again, no idea why. I tried to make it through one more time, but ended up looping dialogue. I make a choice about food, characters complain, I make another choice about rations and characters complain about that, then I am prompted to make the first choice about rations again. I know the author really really likes having people complain about rations, but locking us in an endless loop seems a bit much. How can I restart the chapter from here? Is the rest of the game so buggy?
Standard troubleshooting questions:
- Which device and have you cleared your cache?
- Do you have any mods installed?
Android, no, and no.
That sounds like what happens when there’s an update pushed? There definitely hasn’t been a recent update to the scene files of Rebels specifically, but I don’t know about other app code updates.
Whatever the reason, it’s my experience that when a CoG app force-restarts a chapter, it can lead to bugs because of retained stat values from your earlier playthrough. If that’s what’s going on, then I’m sad to say a game restart would be the only option. (It could in theory happen with any CoG game, though ones with long chapters like Rebels are more vulnerable.)
It’s also possible you’ve found a rare bug in the game code, but it would be quite rare – as someone noted on reddit, this chapter has been played through a lot, by a lot of people. Finding it would require digging deep into the choices you’d made leading up to that point, which you may not even remember to the relevant degree of detail.
In the end, I’m not sure a bug hunt in the Rebels-specific code would yield much, because I suspect the culprit is whatever caused the app to reset your chapter mid-playthrough. Sorry not to be more helpful. 
No problem, I really appreciate the info. I restarted the game, played through most of the winter… and then tried to raid a monastery but for reason I don’t understand at all, the raid was an epic fail. Everybody died, I lost a bunch of stuff, and everybody hates me - even the author apparently, the game actually asked “what were you thinking?”. It went well last time I tried it, no idea what was different this time. I think I’m going to move on and find a game that is less psychotically punishing, I’m all for a good challenge but I think I want a game that doesn’t always give me the impression the author totally hates my guts.