FYI - The language for non-unicode programs is important

[Nesca]

Just wanted to share this.
I couldn't get the game to start after having tried everything that was reccomended.
I found a tiny mention that some dudes folder path had special characters and that got me thinking.
My language for non-unicode programs was set to japanese which (among other things) places a yen symbol in front of the user directory.
I changed it to english(UK) and after a restart I could launch the game easy peasy.
Hope this helps anyone and that a dev sees this.

A link to check your language:
https://superuser.com/questions/1167662/why-is-windows-10-displaying-as-%C2%A5-on-the-command-line/1167665

[Dabiz]

Nice find! Might be worth it to place this post in the 'bugs&crashes' folder.

[Nesca]

Thank you! I will :)