Ah I managed it to work, by installing a different itch io game that also uses the same engine (legend of jump jump in case anyone else has the same problem, found a reddit post suggesting this) and it installed the necessary redistributables
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Wanted to try this out, but when I try to start the game I just get the error window that MSVCR120.dll/MSVCP120.dll is missing. I tried reinstalling Visual C++ Redistributables (all of them even) and even putting the .dlls in the folder but then I get the error that the application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)