Hey wooolfy,
So some other folks on the jam submission page mentioned that they ran the game directly on their windows 11 and 10 machines without a VM, and it ran just fine. I have had enough folks play the game that no issue of viruses came up.
Considering this, would you be willing to try playing the game without a virtual machine? (I understand if not, but thought it was worth asking considering the other feedback I've gotten by now)