Yup, just confirmed, uwuJust note that there is a way to save your game whenever you can enter the menu, it is the 6th option in the main menu. It took me 2 hours to figure that out.
1. press x or esc to access menu
2. use the arrows to go right, there are two secret options outside screen, one is save
3. press enter once you reach the save option
4. say, "hurray"