i'm using windows 11 pro

i'll try adding it to steam tho!!

thanks for responding :]

to update, i tried restarting after adding the game client to steam and i'm still getting the same error message. any other ideas on how to troubleshoot this? i still think it may be anti-malware software related, but i don't see the game in the list of apps in my pc's settings to allow the game access to thingss...