Tried playing for the first time and AVG came up and said the game was a virus I believe and deleted it, any idea what it's talking about and can I just ignore it?

Seems like it was a false positive.

If AVG gives you an option to quarantine the file(s) it finds offensive, do so. From there, you should be able to submit the files to AVG for inspection (I say "should" since it's been years since I last used AVG, so maybe it's changed significantly).

If they don't find anything malicious, then they should push an update to their virus definitions. Once they do, you can attempt a re-install.

I will do just that, much appreciated.

Best of luck.

In the rare case they continue to view the files as malicious, you might try adding the files (or entire game install directory) as exceptions toward what AVG scans so that it just ignores them entirely.

If you use Windows 8 or >, I highly advise you to stick with Microsoft's Defender. Does a great job and is nowhere near as intrusive or invasive in your system, and false positives are few and far between, I've found. When I last tried out AVG I found it glopped up my system and slowed it down dramatically in some cases. I don't have any leaning towards Defender aside from the fact that it's the least intrusive AV program I have ever used and as I mentioned is blessedly free of false positives.

When they "test" AV programs I have yet to see a single such comparison that examines false-positive readings among the AV programs tested, and yet that is one of my main reasons for using Defender--it's lack of them. Defender has caught the few things I've run into--but doesn't slow down my system, either.

It's free, and frankly I feel better letting Microsoft handle the responsibility for the security of Windows since Windows is their baby. Just a suggestion, though--not advocating....;)