Tried fiddling with options but didn't see any noticeable improvement. Are there any Windows settings I can change to avoid the brightness and glow in the tutorial and Instant Actions maps? It's like staring into the sun (slight exaggeration).

This is a known bug with the DEBUGCOMPAT version of the game, which I uploaded to see if that rendering mode fixed this crash: https://itch.io/t/4726887/error-report-crash-on-startup-on-bones. If you're able to use the non-DEBUGCOMPAT download, it's not a problem there.

The next build at the end of the month will be able to gracefully degrade to DEBUGCOMPAT's rendering mode without the need for a separate build and without the flash-bang effect. Thank you for your patience!