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darklink  i was just talking to another game dev experiencing this same issue. Windows has identified this game as containing Trojan: Wacatac.8!ml, this is a FALSE POSITIVE. meaning that windows is preventing the download to protect your computer since it COULD be malware. Looking at Cortoks list of stellar games, it is definitely not (but always reach your own conclusions). Do this to allow the game download:

  1. use windows search to find Windows Security
  2. Navigate to protection history tab
  3. find the Threat Blocked instance, where the game was unable to download
  4. Identify that the threat was blocked due to Wacatac.B!ml threat, this is the false positive
  5. Under Actions Select Allow
  6. game should now download
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Note: this is NOT advice from an expert, I'm just a gamer. Giving exceptions to your windows anti virus can be dangerous to your computer. If anyone who is an expert has dealt with this before please comment and let me know if there are other ways to test and ensure its a false positive, also if you know any information on how to help the game dev change any game file information to avoid users experiencing this threat, Im sure they would appreciate that too.

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Got it working! Thanks so much!