diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 078e46b4..59405a26 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 - Add category filtering dialog for game library (thanks to orende)
 - Parallelize api.can_connect function with threads, futures (thanks to orende)
 - Fix available disk space being checked in parent directory (thanks to Unrud)
+- Create new config if reading it fails
 
 **1.2.2**
 - Fix progress bar not showing up for downloads
diff --git a/minigalaxy/config.py b/minigalaxy/config.py
index 876b47ad..7512b3de 100644
--- a/minigalaxy/config.py
+++ b/minigalaxy/config.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def __load(self) -> None:
             with open(self.__config_file, "r") as file:
                 try:
                     self.__config = json.loads(file.read())
-                except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
+                except (json.decoder.JSONDecodeError, UnicodeDecodeError):
                     logger.warn("Reading config.json failed, creating new config file.")
                     os.remove(self.__config_file)