Myriavora Demo v8093 file

Only 1 of the 65 scanners at virus total reports an issue. That's an unusually low rate for an unsigned executable and a clear sign of a false positive, especially considering that the file is more than 2 years old. By now, you'd expect almost all of the scanners to identify the issue if there actually was one.

But, if you don't trust the indiedb/moddb version, you can still try the steam demo version. It's free as well, has exactly the same amount of content, and even includes a few extra features (like leaderboards).

Anyway, I upvoted your comments because it's always a good idea to be cautious about downloading stuff from the internet. In fact, people have been (and probably are still) trying to publish infected versions of Myriavora. In the beginning I reported them, but there's too many of them and they eventually disappear anyway.

So, how can you tell this file is legitimate? Well, you can never be 100% sure, but there's a couple of hints:
- The steam store page and the indiedb page link to each other: the indiedb page's profile box's Homepage link leads to the steam store page which in turn has a "Visit the website" link in its profile box that leads back to the indiedb page.
- When you look at the file stats you can see that the uploader of this file is not some random account but Myriavora's creator (me). In fact, that's true for all files on this page since I've disabled community contributions precisely to avoid issues with malware.
- There's a lot of content related to the game, here and under linked social media accounts. Nobody in their right mind would put that much effort into distributing just one virus.
- Finally, the low detection rate at virus total in combination with the age of the file strongly indicates a false positive as discussed above.

Is all of that enough to trust the file? Well, that's for you to decide.