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Hi. This is  Apple's fault, actually. I'm on the latest MacOS Catalina and it works fine here, but you have to mark the launcher inside the .app's content folder as an executable.  In latest versions of MacOS, when you download unknown binaries from the internet,  the OS marks the launcher of this application as non-executable. To make it work, after you extract the .zip file, right-click on the .app file > show package contents, then open a terminal inside its Contents/MacOS folder. Then, type "chmod +x Siren\ Head\ v1.0" . Go back to the .app file and you can now open it normally.

Wow thank you for pointing this out. I had no idea what was causing it. Thanks for making things easy Apple 😐

No problem. I was also puzzled by this at first. I mean, it makes some sense when you think about security and all, but it's annoying nonetheless.

I opened a New Terminal At Folder on the MacOS folder and typed in verbatim what you wrote along with a bunch of variations in case I misunderstood (using v1.1 instead of v1.0 because that's the version I  have) but Terminal kept telling me  "No such file or directory".

It has to be the folder "inside" the .app file. See, each .app file in MacOS has a "content folder" inside it. Maybe you're in the wrong directory. You have to right-click the .app file after the .zip file was extracted and select "show package contents". Then, inside this folder, open a terminal inside its Contents/MacOS folder. To confirm you're inside the right .app folder, use the command "pwd". You should get something like:

/Users/<username>/Downloads/Siren Head.app/Contents/MacOS.

If you're somewhere else, it should not work.

That's what I  did. It was on the MacOS folder inside the package contents of the application.