I've been playing for a week now, and this is my second decent run where I've got the basics somewhat sorted (the first decent run ended because I desperately ate a lot of berries and shat myself to death), so I was hoping to keep going and see if this can be a really big successful run, but it's stuck on "Loading Monsters" whenever I try to continue.

I've got no mods on, my PC didn't crash (playing the Steam version), and it's stuck on this screen for >1 hour so it's not just loading slowly.

From the Steam forum, it looks like this is a corrupted game save, and there's nothing that can really be done to fix it, and I just need to restart. Is that still definitely the case? I was only a few hours in, but that's a couple evenings of gaming for me, and I'd rather not have to restart if I don't have to.