yeah it happens for me in the new stable 0.30 as well. I die and then the game seemingly does stuff in the background, but I can only see the splash screen. I noticed that the music initializes and plays and I cannot get the game to minimize (playing fullscreen), so I can't even get into the task manager. Have to reboot. Weird, but I guess a freeze is the wrong description. Maybe I should play in windowed mode and see if that works as expected.