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Nothing will allow me to open this file due to everything detecting it as a Trojan virus. Please err on the side of caution, if this is a game that you've struggled and spent time making, maybe try and see why it's being detected like this. I can't recommend downloading this title until said issue is fixed.

It's not my job to sort out any tech related issues of course, but I do see false positives quite a bit when it comes to indie games. Even Ren'Py games get detected as false positives by some very aggressive anti-virus softwares.


The file is an installer for a game made in the Game Maker engine and my anti-virus (Avast) didn't detect anything. What might have thrown off your anti-viruses is that it's an installer and not the actual raw files.

If this weren't the in-house Gamer Maker installer I personally wouldn't have played the game either, so I recommend the author to not use the installer or also add the option to download the files directly.

Thx for your feedback and helping me out here. Uploading the raw files is a good idea.

I do have a fair bit of experience with them, but I've never had all of my anti-viruses yell at me quite that loudly before for downloading an .exe for an indie game, so it did make me a little concerned about going ahead. That being said I can safely say now, not a virus.

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The game was made on the old GameMaker version 1.4, I will switch to GameMaker 2 soon and hope that this will magically fix the issue, because I have no idea why it detects it as a Trojan virus. For now, I will upload the game files as well, to let the people decide what to download. Hope this fixes it for you.