I was able to play the game a little bit, then had to leave the computer for a couple of hours.  When I came back, the game had crashed to desktop.  A message popped up, saying it would be nice to send a particular folder to devs (could not find folder, did not provide address to send folder).  Tried to load my save- crash.  Try to start new game- gets through character creation, then crashes.  The same message pops up every time.  Guys, I really liked the little bit I played.  Please help!

I am also getting this issue however I never got to play the game first. First character, finish creation and bam straight out to desktop

the same happens to me. Pls help.

Same.  Game crashes after character creation.

I had the same issue, crash directly after character creation screen. I looked at the ouput_log.txt in the crash log, and the first suspicious line in there was

 

[steamworks.NET] SteamAPI_Init() failed. Refer to Valve's documentation or the comment above this line for more information.

 

After updating Steam, the issue was solved.