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Cannot testify for this case but Bulk Crap Uninstaller[0] is usually a reliable way to fully uninstall tenacious windows programs, including potentially left over files and registry entries.
[0] https://www.bcuninstaller.com/
Often with good reason, the Steam API provides some very nice APIs (cloud saves, mods, controller input mapping, multiplayer sessions, etc.) that can be assumed to be available if you're only selling your game through Steam anyway.
You can use common Steam piracy tools to work around this problem, though. All you need to do is build (or download, if you've for faith in your antivirus software) a few DLLs and drop them into the game folder: https://gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulator
In addition to just taking all privileges way from the process, like Chrome does, there's also Sandboxie [1] and the official Windows Sandbox [2]
1: https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie
2: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...
2b: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...