Got the same problem.
Messed with the timer a little bit: the game quits after 1 minute. It doesn't matter if I am only in the main menu or in the game.
UPDATE: Adding folder/binary to the antivirus exception list didn't help. I use Windows Defender (Windows 11) if it helps.
UPDATE2: Just run exe through MSVS debugger. And got this: "Exception thrown at 0x00007FF74D960E63 in PerfectVermin-Win64-Shipping.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF." That's definitely some strange location to read from. Hope that helps too.