Shuggy crashes on launch with 'FileNotFound' error?

Question

I've just tried installing the Adventures of Shuggy demo on Steam, but unfortunately it crashes immediately after launch with the message

Shuggy has stopped working

Here's a screenshot of how the crash looks like:

Upon examining Windows event viewer logs, I see that a .NET Runtime error was reported:

Application: Shuggy.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.IO.FileNotFoundException
Stack:
at Shuggy.Program.Main(System.String[])

My usual approach for launch errors of Steam games, validating the local file integrity, didn't help. Does anyone know how to address this issue? System is Windows 7 64-bit.

Answer 1

I had the same issue, and installing the redistributables from the install directory fixed it for me.