Another possibility is because the anti-virus software, sometimes they quarantine any suspicious .exe file... and it gives false positive for some file
IDK... My computer definitely acts up from time to time, but every anti-virus thing I've ever tried said everything was fine.
The other game was Typefarmer by Antti Haavikko. I was wondering if it had something to do with Itch or some library my PC doesn't like for some reason.
I guess we'll see.
p.s. The Steam version works perfectly. Wishlisted, and excited for the full version. :-)