Game crashes on new game

[YJ_ness]

My computer runs windows 11, hardware : rtx 4090, i7-13700. SteamWorld Dig crashes on making a new game every time.

Error message is :
Error while loading: Worker thread: Could not save session! Please verify game cache integrity.

I've tried disabling steam cloud, verifying game files integrity, uninstalling and reinstalling the game. Nothing works. It's pretty scummy to sell a game that doesn't even start without crashing. There's a thread from 2023 about crashing on start but you still haven't addressed it?

[Radagast the Brown]

The thing with games in general to be honest, is that very old games will eventually stop working as we move to new operating systems. Its in fact inevitable whether we like it or not (spoiler we don't like it).

Devs that have been very successful with their games or big companies or someone with good will and time that is still in the business or who can get paid for it, "may" patch an old game to meet new standards, but its not always the case, nor is it always viable or easy to do. In the gaming industry there are many cases when the devs never get the attention or money they deserve for making something which they poured their everything, so it becomes increasingly impossible to support a game for too long for free, let alone a decade or more. This is an 11 year old game. You can wish for a miracle like we all do, but the truth is that many games are in this state with nobody any more supporting these games for various reasons. Its not a live service game after all. It is what it is. Imagine 50 years from now, most games from today will probably not be playable either.

[nolocimes]

Same here. I also tried to reinstall the game or verify the cache, but nothing worked. However, I figured out that it could be a OneDrive-related issue, specifically a problem with Documents folder syncing. What you can try is to create a local account, here is how to do it for Windows 11:
1. Go to Settings -> Accounts -> Other users
2. Click "Add account"
3. Select "I don't have this person's sign-in information"
4. Select "Add a user without a Microsoft account"
5. Enter user name and create an account

Then sign-in under the newly created account, install Steam, and try to run the game. This is the only working solution I have found so far