A Game of Thrones The Board Game v2020.10.05-P2P

@Zachary Bart,

Typically, whenever you install a cracked version of a game, whatever Anti-virus or even Windows Defender, will detect the cracked game executable and it’s files as a threat, and flag it for Quarantine and Deletion, or simply try to block the process of it. This is what is known often at times to be a false positive. Something that both your Anti-virus and Windows Defender will detect as something of a threat, when it really isn’t one at all.

This can also cause conflicts with game installers of this nature for cracked game versions, which is why, if you have ever read the NFO files included with some of the games that you have installed before or in the past, have always said, to temporarily disable any running Anti-virus, and if running a Firewall, to not allow the game to go online as it may try to connect to Steam.

To prevent this from happening, you should follow the Golden rule from some of those NFO files that say as such. Temporarily disable any Anti-virus or Windows Defender you have running first. Make sure that you aren’t allowing the game’s executable to connect or go online through your Firewall if it tries to make an attempt to do so.

It should be noted as well, that even if you disable your Anti-virus temporarily while running the game installer, it could still be running silently in the background with some elements of it still protecting your system, so it is possible that it could still interfere with the proper progress of a successful game install.

To prevent that from happening, you can simply restart your PC in Windows Safe Mode without Networking.
When your PC boots into Windows Safe mode, run the game installer, choose the drive and location of where you want the game to be installed to, and let it fully install.
Once you see that the installer has successfully completed the installation of the game, close the game installer, and restart your PC.

Allow your PC to boot back normally into Windows. Then, from either a shortcut to the game on your Windows Desktop, or from the Windows Start menu, start the game.
If all goes well, then you did things right.

The only time that you would not have to worry about turning off or disabling your Anti-virus or Windows Defender while installing a game, is if it were a GOG version release, as GOG games are completely DRM – Free, meaning no copy protection, and no Denuvo.

Usually when you install a game on your PC, especially a cracked version, you will have a folder, marked either CODEX or HOODLUM (as some are), and inside of that folder, will either be the cracked game executable with crack files, or just the crack files itself, depending on what is needed for the game to run.
Naturally you won’t have to do much yourself but to install the game and in some cases set the installer to automatically install the crack for you to the directory during the installation.
If doing it manually, make sure all files from the Crack folder are copy / pasted over to the game dir

@Zachary Bart,

EDIT:
So I have taken a closer look at this game and have noticed that it doesn’t come with an installer, so you are going to have to copy / paste the files from the Crack folder to the appropriate folder of the game directory to get the game to work.

Here is how to do that:
1) Open: Crack\AGameOfThronesTheBoardGame_Data\Plugins
2) Copy the following files from the folder location above:
steam_settings folder
local_save.txt
steam_api64.dll
3) Paste the files into the following directory folder location from the main game directory path:
A Game of Thrones The Board Game v2020.10.05-P2P\A Game of Thrones – The Board Game\AGameOfThronesTheBoardGame_Data\Plugins
4) Go back to the main game directory, and locate the: AGameOfThronesTheBoardGame.exe
5) Create a shortcut from the: AGameOfThronesTheBoardGame.exe
6) Move the shortcut of the: AGameOfThronesTheBoardGame.exe to your Windows Desktop
7) Start the game from the Windows Desktop shortcut of the game you had just created.
8) Profit and Enjoy!

Note:
All your Game Saves will be saved in the following location:
A Game of Thrones The Board Game v2020.10.05-P2P\A Game of Thrones – The Board Game\AGameOfThronesTheBoardGame_Data\Plugins\steam_settings