Chrome says the file is suspicious, so I guess there never was a chicken and an egg mode, just malware (unless you can explain the "file suspicious thing", i dunno).
Hi! I promise it is a game and not malware, but I'm not sure why chrome would say that. You're downloading through the web as opposed to the itch desktop client?
Here is the github repository for the game, if you use Godot you can build it yourself after inspecting the files.
