No, the game don't start aftert. And i detected other bug, the updater download the files inside a new folder The Fertile Crescent_Data inside The Fertile Crescent_Data/ (The Fertile Crescent_Data/The Fertile Crescent_Data/)
Thanks for sharing! We've submitted a ticket to the developers of the patcher system. Hopefully we can come up with a fix for this soon. It works perfectly fine on Windows and macOS.