That's exactly how I work and 7-zip is even my preferred tool for extraction.
Are you getting an error message during extraction, and if so, what error are you seeing? Have you checked your Windows event logs in Event Viewer? Is there likely an AV product flagging the game or any of its files? Are you able to get the game to load at all, or go through the process of trying to load?
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. I may be able to help you quicker there. If you could, please, go into the Midnight Sin technical support channel. Also, please do not include in any messages you send to the channel that you downloaded the game from here, as it goes against the rules for mentioning f95 or that you downloaded it from a pirate site. Thanks!