God, the coding in this is an absolute mess. Makes saves completely useless. Trying to load any saves just breaks everything to the point that the only solution I can find is to quit, reload, start a new game.
Most/all variables seem to be somewhat persistent, so if you try to load a different save you're still stuck with the same story progression, but now the people/things you're supposed to click aren't there/clickable so you're just stuck. And if you try to load another save that isn't in the sandbox, sometimes you'll just get a black screen with the game logo where you can't do anything, and sometimes the file will load but once you get to the sandbox you'll get an "IndexError: list index out of range" error.