1- I asked on SDA as they might have a good guideline for this situation 2 - Softlocks are a part of the run, if you get one, too bad. You can restart the game but the timer shouldn't be paused. 3 - If you do a run, you can submit it as any% and I will create the category

From what I saw in other games, the splits are paused when the game crashes because they have an auto-split plugin.

So, in Apotheon's case we can do the same, pause when the crash happens and restart it when you press to continue the game.