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Upon doing my own research on this, no. It's a false positive around the dumb way Clickteam puts every single file of the game into one EXE, causing many Antivirus vendors to flag Clickteam's compressed EXEs as malware.

To make sure things weren't awry with the game, I exported it as an Unpacked EXE from Clickteam, and put those files in VirusTotal, and it came up with only 1 flag for the EXE, and zero for the data file.

I also looked up the Schoolgirl trojan detected that's more common in these detections, and I learned that this is not the first time VirusTotal has had this happen with a Clickteam game. It happened as recently as Graveyard Shift at Freddy's, as well as things that have no real reason to be carrying a trojan that were made in Clickteam.

Even with that said, I wouldn't exactly trust VirusTotal's detections completely fully. The scans that VirusTotal makes on newer files are not deep scans. Machine learning algorithms in the antivirus sensors detect code that is SIMILAR to commonly found malware, and have proven to be unreliable in the past. The most reliable detections are ones made by actual security researchers that confirm malicious code.

in a similar way, i don't use any antivirus software, just windows defender, and even then it is false detecting one clickteam game on my file everytime i open up a folder with the game in it. forcing me to stop the process before it could delete the file from my PC.

still a false positive.