Around about the time I entered the other room with the fake tree and the rest of the character introductions, I noticed the F1/Start button on controller menu refused to open anymore. Was thinking maybe it just wasn't going to let me save in that scene so I carried on.

Now I'm into the first 'murder investigation' phase and it's still not working. I tried to disconnect my controller and go back to K+M controls but now there's zero input at all. When turning the controller back on there's still nothing, so now my game is completely soft locked :/

Think I saved a good 40 minutes ago too. 😥

EDIT: Is there a way to super fast foward through text like in other VN's? Having to mash click through all of these again as I load my old save is giving me carpal tunnel 😅

EDIT2: Ok thankfully we can hold down escape or a controller button to fast-skip. From what I can tell after reloading and replaying these scenes about 4 times now is that the game doesn't like a controller, specifically in that part of the game. Worked fine up until now but my Save menu broke every time unless I was just playing using K+M controls. So I guess I'll stick to that unless a dev response or patch comes about :/

Unfortunately i've had the same issue and looks to have a few more people who have this problem too. :( good to know it should work with keyboard and mouse and you can press esc to skip dialogue. I hope that it can be fixed to plau with controller as my pals and I are playing it together hooked up to the TV which is way easier with controller lol. But not if you can't save with controller in!

I have the same issue so it seems to still not have been fixed