dang, that sucks! no players? can you open any menus? what plaform?
I have this too. Doing anything on the menu removes everything, including sound. Escape button works. Trying to use the mouse on anything closes the menu regardless of what was pressed.
I am on windows 11. I used the itch launcher to start the game.
I have Nvidea shield overlay, although this rarely affects anything.
I have two controllers connected. A ps4 controller (bluetooth) and a n64 controller (usb).