So I've had zero issues with running any of the other games in the collection and saved playing The Fruit for last since it seemed to be a lot of peoples favorite game. But whenever I start it, it will play the intro sequence involving the voice acted letter, stall after the voiceover ends, and then does one of two things: crash to desktop (as well as crashing steam), or will crash back to The Hunt and reveals the sample code as if I had beaten it but then softlocks the game as the cursor cannot click on anything after that point. I reinstalled the game, but it has not changed anything and always results in one of the two above issues. Any help would be great as its a bit of a bummer to get to the very end and have this pop up.

*Edit: Also if I attempt to play it in Freeplay mode (above description is attempting to play in story mode), it wont even load and just gives an error before dropping back to freeplay mode.

Hardware specs:
Windows 10
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K CPU 3.3GHZ
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Motherboard: ASUSTeK P8Z68-V PRO GEN3