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

We are looking into improving controller support for the future, if problems like these arise in the future please make a thread in the tech support channel of the discord.