VPN is not important where I live, Malwarebytes absolutely, if the game is small I’d even upload it to Virus Total but I doubt I can in most cases.
Regarding torrents, seems solid. The only thing I would like to note is there are only two goat websites in the torrent section, there are more in the direct download section. I’m generally very careful, I doubt I got a virus when I was a teen. FitGirl is still a Goat source.