Game No Longer Playable/Crashing

Hello, I posted this in the Steam Community and haven't gotten any answers, figured I'd try here.

So Path of Achra has quickly become my current favorite game. I have played almost nothing else since purchasing Path of Achra. Yesterday, the game suddenly stopped working on my machine. It will launch, the Maqbara, Lore, and settings menus are all accessible, but it immediately closes upon selecting The Path. I had been messing around with some windows settings prior to this, like uninstalling Synapse or turning off Fast Boot, so my first thought was to undo those. That did not fix the problem. I made sure my drivers were updated, that also did not fix the problem. I tried resetting my PC, that didn't fix the problem. Finally I say to hell with it and install Linux (windows was giving me issues anyway), because ProtonDB says Path of Achra runs perfectly. Sure enough, the game launches just fine but still crashes whenever I select The Path on the main menu. I can't wrap my head around exactly what is causing the problem. Is it a recent update (I don't recall one downloading before this all started), could it be that my hardware somehow became incompatible out of nowhere? My system is a Ryzen 7600X and Radeon 7800XT, fairly standard components. If anyone has any insight it would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: Tried it on a completely different computer and the same thing happened. I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out what's going on lol