Seems there's a problem for me, whenever the prompts for the essence selection wheel appears it will automatically activate it.
And this appears
I can just press ignore but it automatically chooses the essence for me.
Thank you for the report! I haven't received other reports of this error and it seems pretty big, though. Does it happen when you load a save around that part of the story? Because the new version's updated to the essence wheel have (unfortunately) broken a few saves like that. Are you playing on PC or Android? Is it only this specific essence selection or does it happen on all of them?
all of my saves before the Ludwig massage scene always crash and then it either crashes the game or sends me to the very start of the story. I've managed to bypass the bug, so I was able to finish the new addition to the story. I had to pick a save where the next scene didn't have the essence wheel load.