I'm so glad you enjoyed the game. :) It's really nice to read my own artistic intent from someone else's point of view.
You can right-click or press "esc" to access the pause menu. It's stated in the "help" section.
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I missed that! Thank you for letting me know.
I won’t go into full detail in case someone who wants to play reads this, but I think my favorite part was the “tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.” part. The way it was structured, I actually did press the space bar in time with each “Tick. Tock.” instead of casually clicking through the text. It made the gameplay very engaging!