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Interesting. Had the same problem, but thought this might be something only affecting me.

I resolved this by going into "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\itch" and starting "itch-setup.exe" there manually.

See the change date of the file, it should be the date when you tried to auto-update. So, this should already be a new installer. Start it, go through the installation process and the desktop app should launch then. Also, the installer should have deleted the previous version in the directory afterwards.

In the app, you can verify at the bottom of the settings menu that you've got the new version now. It should say: "itch @ 26.6.0".

There's a new version of the desktop app (26.6.0) that should hopefully fix the issue. At least it did for me.

https://github.com/itchio/itch/releases/tag/v26.6.0

It's interesting that this seems to work for some around here, but not for others. For me, it also doesn't work.

Great game and can't wait for the new version!

Yes: https://forum.big-robot.com/t/tolva-testers-in-here/29