The possible process to solve this will be to create a new firewall inbound and outbound rule I believe. You can look up how to create one on YouTube but playing it on the browser and creating a save file is much easier bruh. If it wasn't even being downloaded then this should possibly solve it. Honestly I can't possibly tell you more without looking at your settings, I'm pretty new to this also.
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Yeah, I just created an exception to it in Windows Defender.
I tried playing in the browser version but it messed up my save, and Tang Ruo whom I had decided to be a woman was regarded as a male. Also, I like to use the Cheat Master thing to edit stats, and it didn't work on the browser version.
But, well, nothing bad happened when I used it after putting an exception on windows defender. It may just be something wrong with the file, maybe it had a link, like a patreon link, and it got flagged? Regardless, just adding an exception worked fine.