Dang that's really odd, only time we ever seen that was an issue with a controller being plugged in. What OS are you using?
I play games on my windows desktop computer. I do have a Macbook on which I can run the steam version seemingly without problems, but the itch.io version can't even be launched (just get a error message pop up which says translates roughly into "The application "HeadlinerNoviNews" can't be launched").