Hello! 

I don't know what I'm doing wrong at all. I have followed the tutorial posted on YT and also looked into the demo file and just copy and pasted those common events as well to see what the issue is and regardless the menu pulls up but the game is still playing and it won't go away. 

Can you capture me a video and send to Discord?

For pausing game, you can use command Pause Events. The demo is outdated and doesn't use new features, such as pausing or Wizard, so I don't recommend to copy and paste from the demo.