ESC key doesn't pause the game nor close open menus anymore

Since yesterday all at a sudden my ingame esc key behaviour changed as stated in the post title; the keyboard works fine(already checked ofc), cannot find the option in O>input, edited the ini file it was shifted to ascii 32(spacebar) and moved back to ascii 27(esc) but it does nothing, steam doesn't detect any corrupted file... is that intended or it's a bug and maybe is there actually some1 else that's having the same issue?

Problem solved, was overwolf overlay fault. Disabling it made ESC key work again

Thanks, this is happening to me right now. Overwolf too.

Is there any solution found to keep the overwolf app going?

I didnt have the issue for about 24 hours after install. Just randomly started.

Hey, I think I found a solution to keep Overwolf.

Overwolf settings / overlay & hotkeys / click on poe3 / ah no you are in 25... happy new year ! / click on poe2 / go down and unbound the "close in-game menu" where you can see the ESC.