Warning: this change may break your game in the future, I have no idea but it worked for me
For anyone unable to get past the first free roam and are stuck with only Optional "Solve the puzzle box" here's what i did
step 1.
step 2.
BeingADik-0.XX.0-pc-lin\game\scripts\freeroam\episode11 (or whatever you called the game)
and open ep11_freeroam_room1.rpy (with notepad or vscode, i did it with notepad)
step 3.
scroll to the bottom of the code
and change the line under "label ep11_freeroam1_room_end_label:" to "if True:"
and change the line directly under "$ renpy.pause(0.5)" to "elif False:"
it should then look like the following:
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Step 4.
Warning: this change may break your game in the future I have no idea, but it worked for me
putting this warning again in case you forgot.
Step 5.
close the game (if it was open) and reopen again