Turns out I had an old USB driver for "HID-Compliant Game Controller" hanging out in my device manager. Uninstalled that and now the game runs just fine. Making a video soon!!
Oh that is great that you found it! We were racking our brains trying to figure out what this could be haha!🙃
Thank you so much for diligently looking for the issue and we are looking forward to seeing you play!🥳