Comments - pndrev

Thanks. In that case, I'll enjoy the game later today. :)
I should've thought of debugging the crash earlier, but usually there's nothing useful to see...

Nice response time, btw. :)

Follow-up: Launching the VS debugger on the crash indeed reveals:
Die Datei oder Assembly "Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=842cf8be1de50553" oder eine Abhängigkeit davon wurde nicht gefunden. Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.
(File not found)
Which would mean XNA installation is a requirement. Which *probably* means that the downloadable archive *without* a Desura client is not enough to run the game.
Does the Desura client take care of checking XNA dependencies, or is the current archive faulty in that regard?

Immediately on startup.
I will try again later today on a German Vista system.
Are there any dependencies on having XNA installed? Or not having (multiple) Visual Studio installations on the system?

Windows Media Player is installed, but only the version that came with the OS.
Which dlls are missing? I could try and see if I find them on my system.

Installed it, tried to launch it, doesn't work:

Problemsignatur:
Problemereignisname: APPCRASH
Anwendungsname: Claustrophobia.exe
Anwendungsversion: 1.0.0.0
Anwendungszeitstempel: 51096ab5
Fehlermodulname: KERNELBASE.dll
Fehlermodulversion: 6.1.7601.17965
Fehlermodulzeitstempel: 506dbe50
Ausnahmecode: e0434352
Ausnahmeoffset: 0000c41f
Betriebsystemversion: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4
Gebietsschema-ID: 1031
Zusatzinformation 1: 0a9e
Zusatzinformation 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Zusatzinformation 3: 0a9e
Zusatzinformation 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

(Win7 German, Administrator right. Both tried as user and explicitly launching as Admin)