Sims Legacy no longer loads after Patch #4

Laptop
Windows 10 
Intel i5 2.4 GHz
NVIDIA 1050i
Steam
The Sims Legacy standalone

Was just playing Sims Legacy yesterday and I have 19 total hours of playtime on it. It loaded-up just fine and ran very well - zero serious issues. 

Now, today, it won't load-up at all - the cursor shows a blip of the "Loading" eggtimer, but then it stops. 

Ran File Verification - 1 file needed to be replaced.
Attempted to load the game again
- same issue.

Uninstalled and re-installed
- same issue. 

Edit:
Uninstalled and re-installed the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 - 2022 Redistributable (x64) and (x86) then restarted my PC
- same issue. No change.