Running version 1.0.2 on Windows 8, can't start a single game, every time fails to initialize.

Hey there, just got the game, haven't come around playing it yed, but read the manual on the train. Maybe you wanna rename that PDF-File into prologue, because that's pretty much all it is. There's none Ingame-Screenshot, let alone one chapter about how to play the game, for all i know after reading...