Oxygen not included won't load up.

I’m having a similar problem.

If this helps anyone figure out the solution, this started for me after the update as well. I went to go reload an auto save (a dup died) and my game was frozen. I’m talking ctrl+alt+delete/windows key doesn’t work level of frozen. I restarted my computer and opened it up to a stuck welcoming screen like the one above. 

I’ve tried restarting my computer (again), restarting steam, deleting old auto saves from the game library, resetting my timezone on my computer (I read somewhere that this is an actual solution to a different problem), and reinstalling the game. I read the steam overlay can also cause problems, so I tried disabling it and that didn’t work either.

Edited August 1, 2019 by Gingibell

One hour later and I think I’ve found the solution. I don’t know why this worked but I read on a different forum that onedrive is possibly messing with the file named “Klei”. I renamed the file “Klei.old” and that managed to open the game up.

I wasn’t logged into onedrive so anyone else having this problem, try it. It might help

If this doesn’t work, I also turned steam to offline back to online and removed the mod files and placed them back in. I don’t know if this is what caused it to work but I thought it would be best to mention it just in case.

Edit:

Lol, renaming the file creates a completely new one, that’s why it works.

If you want your old colony, go to the renamed file, grab “save_files” and grab the whole file. Move it onto your desktop or something. Now go to the new Klei folder replace the new “save_files”

Something I noticed when doing this is in the original folder “auto_save” wasn’t in “save_files”. This could have also been the problem. 

Hope this helps

Edited August 1, 2019 by Gingibell