Congrats on getting it to load, hahaha-- I don't think I EVER would've gotten it working if not for looking through these comments, so I just wanted to share. :  )

Auren mentions that you can softlock sometimes if hit Enter to start the game instead of Space. Maybe delete any save info it might've created in your User Data, then right at the beginning, hit Spacebar instead of Enter. There might also be more help here, if you have the "fatal error" message: https://steamcommunity.com/app/295750/discussions/0/2998800559166959718/

Auren mentions that you can softlock sometimes if hit Enter to start the game instead of Space. Maybe delete any save info it might've created in your User Data, then right at the beginning, hit Spacebar instead of Enter. There might also be more help here, if you have the "fatal error" message: https://steamcommunity.com/app/295750/discussions/0/2998800559166959718/

Auren mentions that you can softlock sometimes if hit Enter to start the game instead of Space. Maybe delete any save info it might've created in your User Data, then right at the beginning, hit Spacebar instead of Enter. There might also be more help here, if you have the "fatal error" message: https://steamcommunity.com/app/295750/discussions/0/2998800559166959718/

Auren mentions that you can softlock sometimes if hit Enter to start the game instead of Space. Maybe delete any save info it might've created in your Application Support, then right at the beginning, hit Spacebar instead of Enter.

Auren mentions that you can softlock sometimes if hit Enter to start the game instead of Space. Maybe delete any save info it might've created in your Application Support, then right at the beginning, hit Spacebar instead of Enter.

There's some solution over here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/295750/discussions/0/2998800559166959718/

There's some solution over here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/295750/discussions/0/2998800559166959718/

Auren mentions that if you hit Enter when you first boot the game instead of Space, you can get into a softlock.

If it's a black screen with white dots on the side, then all you gotta do to start the game is press Space! Auren mentions there's a glitch where, if you begin the game with Enter instead of Space, it just stays there.

I'm actually starting to wonder if part of what fixed it for ME was some kind of sorcery that occurred when I opened Detective Grimoire on a system that RAN 32-bit before bringing it over-- creating two different boot-types. When I clean-install Detective Grimoire, I don't get the "Detective Grimoire" and "Detective Grimoire_32" thing. So strange! Just don't want to be reporting something that doesn't work, should the occasional macOS user come through. At any rate, two other good solutions for fixing all 32-bit Adobe AIR games:

1) Steal the shell of a 64-bit Adobe AIR game (like The Last Door Season 1 or Season 2... or, like, The Floor is Jelly, which was included in the Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality), then right-click > Show Package Contents and go to Contents > Resources, and delete all the files in that Resources folder. THEN go to the Resources folder in the 32-bit game you want to play, then transfer all those files into the folder of the 64-bit game. This seems to work super-well with all DRM-free games-- I've even gotten this to work with PC Adobe AIR games!

2) Build a 64-bit Adobe AIR shell yourself using Adobe Animate/Flash and the free Adobe AIR SDK. Build, like, an empty Flash file, build it as an Adobe AIR app, then replace the Resources again. Good times!

I'm on MacOS, and I had to hit Space Bar to get anything to happen in the game, once I reach the blue screen. I, too, cannot hit "Save & Quit", though. I'm a bit perplexed about that.

EDIT: AH! You can't even hit "Exit" or "Save & Quit" until you've gotten past this first white dots stage. Then you can select "Save & Quit" successfully with Space.

EDIT 2: Auren mentions that this is actually a glitch that happens when you select Begin with Enter instead of Space.

Hey, just wanted to reply with a solution I found! All you gotta do is install this last version of Adobe AIR: https://archive.org/details/adobe-air-32.0 And then I right-clicked into Detective Grimoire, went Show Package Contents > MacOS > and opened "Detective Grimoire" instead of "Detective Grimoire_32". That's all I had to do-- lemme know if it doesn't work for you. ^_^ (EDIT: Just added a follow-up answer below for if it doesn't work.)

My brother & I got all five secret chips together, and we ADORED it. One of the finest mechanics I've ever heard of. Just letting you know, the Mac version is broken! :  ( If you die, you can never come back. (Same with being warped back to the portals. It shows the graphic of being beamed back, but then you never show up.) All the very best-- I spent a whole week trying to find this game after seeing a Twitter post about it and losing it, and it was WORTH it.

Also, as a slight note, we thought our keyboard controls were broken when we got to the head-toss sign that says "^ + X", because it doesn't allow you to do anything yet when we haven't gotten the ability. I feel like you shouldn't put any sign there (or at least until you've received the ability)-- it gives people the thought that the controls might be broken.

You throw the seeds at them! And then you have to scare away the crows by making the scarecrow gaudier-- then you can plant crops in the field.

I'd actually written in during the Black Friday Steam sale and asked for a sale here, hahaha-- SO grateful someone finally did a completely inclusive sale. PURCHASE'D.

Thank you so much for your quick response-- and gotchya about the gamepad thing! We were, in-fact, using Wiimote Classic Controllers mapped to keyboards, but I think there should be an easy way to have the game recognized. Also, hey, your avatar looks like a drawing of me, cool.

This is definitely one of the greatest games I've found on itch.io, bar none. Brilliant and hilarious physics, a bonkers mechanic, and clever writing. I don't know if it's just my computer (I have a Mac OS X El Capitan), but the 2-player mode has this problem where it only follows the second player, in both splitscreens. Is there any way to fix this issue?