I played it in 2023, decided to try online with a fresh start and it's not connecting, since I'm in Russia and it's kinda hard to connect to anything that's not here due to obvious stuff happening.

That's fine, I'm okay playing offline again, but I don't see an option to change it now - game just straight up goes into connection loop process and I can't click anything to change it back to offline.

Any way to do that at all? Reinstalling or verifying files didn't help to reset that choice. I hoped that waiting long enough will give an error or something so that I'd be able to choose, but doesn't seem to be the case.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3779518974
Just stuck on this screen with nothing to do.