The patch broke my inventory (all gone) so I started over, and now the conversation with the mayor doesn't trigger on day 2 - breaking the game.

Danke, dann versuche es nochmal, sobald ich Zeit habe :-)

ESC key not working in game, cannot leave normally...

It works for me, but there was another - huge - patch in between.

We're working on the patch sizes - that unfortunately isn't really something we have control over, but we're in close contact with GOG to get these smaller..
Regardless of how many changes we do, the updates on here unfortunately are very huge.. That's not a known issue, the return key does provide the same menu though, maybe that helps for now? We'll make sure to look into the issue regardless!

Sry, I've just rechecked and even reset the input config. ESC doesn't work ingame nor does Enter unless I use Enter as interact, that works...

Patch size is not a big issue for me at least.

But I may have found another bug? It's not possible to talk to the doctor, he's always "busy". I'm supposed to talk to him about Rezi, and - from what I gathered, the reason of death of the victim (drowned)? Or am I missing something?

Apart from that I have to provoke Schorsch into telling me something. Haven't found out how to do that yet, but that's probably on me. ;-)

Not sure if you're the same person, but someone sent us an e-mail with the same issue.
In case it's not you: It seems like when you bind the Enter/Return Key to something in our settings, that breaks the Escape key, because they're both set to open the menu.

You can delete your keybinds.sav file in %localappdata%\Totgeschwiegen\Saved\SaveGames - that will reset your key settings, then things should work again!

Edit: Oh I just checked, it was actually you: Thanks for helping us find that issue!

1. Do you know if the Doctor always claiming to be busy (no questioning possible) might be a bug? Or tell me what needs to be done to "unlock" him, please.

2. "Kegeln" is bugged too it seems, tried it last night. If you don't drop all nine in your three tries you're stuck in Kegel mode, but the pins are not put back (even the one left standing was removed), and all you can do is roll down balls the empty lane.
Esc doesn't cancel the Kegel mode, it just opens the usual menu.

Yep, it's me... ;) Perhaps you should update the game to prohibit binding the Enter key to avoid this problem... ;) Nice to be able to be of help...

So we've just fixed the issue no.1 with the update we've just released, unfortunately you'll have to talk to the mayor again, triggering the cutscene, to be able to talk to the doctor (so you should go back to an older savegame, maybe after waking up that day)

Issue 2 we were not able to recreate. On both issues I'd offer you to take a look at your save games and maybe even fix them, if you joined us on feedback and send them to me on there.

Really sorry for the inconvenience..
Definitely! Your input was very valueable and we'll do exactly that!

Not sure if this is a new bug but when I played this part of the game I had to collect the balls and talk to the guy again to reset the pins.