Black screen after first battle

Solution 1:

TL;DR - Don't use backslashes \ (on Windows) in the name of your character (or any other special character, if you want to be extra safe).

Explanation - After searching a bit on the internet, I ended up in the official game forums in the post where they detail how to report bugs. There they suggested to check out the unity logs.

So I did, I opened up C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Shadowrun Returns\Shadowrun_Data\output_log.txt.

After a bit of searching I found the following error: IsolatedStorageException: Could not find a part of the path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Shadowrun Returns\DumpBox\0309_16-53-59_J0h_\__5_\_0\_\__report.csv".

I checked the DumpBox folder and confirmed that the .csv file didn't exist.

Essentially the game creates a .csv file with your character's name in the file name and if you have a backslash in it, it will fail to create and read the file.

This leads to crashing the thread responsible for loading and thus getting stuck on the black screen.