Black Screen Bug - Cannot Progress

[DustyMalmstone]

**WARNING: MINOR SPOILER**

I just went up the Breach elevator to find Athetos, and realized it was probably the final boss fight. I read that beating him is a point of no return, but that if you exit without saving your game, you show back up at your last checkpoint and can keep exploring.

I tried that, but when I returned to the game, my whole screen was black except for sparse, incomplete UI elements. There's still sound and I can still apparently move and shoot, but I can't see anything I'm doing. I tried exiting and reloading the game with and without saving, but that didn't help. Google didn't turn up any answers, so I was hoping someone here would have a solution.

Here's a screenshot of the bug.[imgur.com]

[Axiom Verge]

That is certainly bizarre. I would actually try rebooting your machine to make sure your graphics driver hasn't gotten into some strange state.

If that doesn't work, can you send your save file to support "at" axiomverge com so that I can try to replicate?

[Atlas]

That same thing happened to me after I left the game running at the main menu while alt-tabbed for a good 30+ minutes. When I switched back to start playing the load save menu looked normal except Trace was missing. When I selected a save file I got that exact same screen but quitting out and reloading the game fixed it for me.

Since it never happened again and I have played many hours afterwards I assumed it was just a little graphics bug.

[DustyMalmstone]

It's actually fixed itself by now. I decided to try playing it again a few hours later and it was totally fine. I went back and found a lot of the remaining items, then finished the game with no further issue. I haven't had any problems since. Thanks for the concern though!