hey I'm having this problem too - bought off bundle, played up until day 5 and enjoyed it, but then I put it down and now I have the same blurry splash screen and a Unity error window opens before it crashes. There's no Windows Media Foundation pack for my version of Windows - how am I meant to get past this? I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it doesn't seem to work
There may have been a catastrophic error with the savegame. Luckily we save backups for this case :)
You can find the backups here:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Placeholder Gameworks\Death and Taxes\Saves
You can choose an earlier day save, rename it to Save.RIP and then overwrite the Save.RIP (or delete the old one beforehand) in the path %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Placeholder Gameworks\Death and Taxes\Saves
To open the folder conveniently you can just copy and paste that path into your Run app (Windows Key + R shortcut or type Run into the Windows search bar).
Let me know if this helps!