For some reason, both itch and Defender are treating the executable as malware. Haven't been able to play :(
Same here (a week after this discussion.)
Detected as Win32/Bladabindi!ml by MSE. Like, serious hacking business.
Detected by 5 other antiviruses as well.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9b4ffc4970989827fd4a5fc98d6d64371c5feb7c7efc...
Seems to be mostly through heuristic research, though.
Maybe it's the installer or something?