Hi pixeldrop! We continued testing builds of the game on several machines and found that sometimes, on Windows computers, the game would freeze for a while after you are told to open the main menu for the first time (image below). Although it only happened on the first play-through, it might have been the reason why your version of the game became unresponsive. It turns out the delay was related to Windows taking too much time to load a font for the first time (it didn't happen on Linux). We just updated the game to version 1.5.1 and that problem should be fixed. Please update your game and tell us if you keep having trouble with the beginning of the story or if you have any other question. Thanks for telling us about this issue!