It doesn't matter what you pick, both new game and load starts a new game which is extremely infuriating. And update 0.1.40 doesn't even display it's current version so I don't even know if I'm playing the right version. What the fuck.
what device are you playing on, it should display the v number in the bottom left on the main menu
I said that specifically because version 0.1.39 did show the version in the bottom left corner, whereas the apparent updated version didn't.