Thanks for the in-depth feedback! I think me only playtesting on a laptop trackpad led me to overestimate the difficulty of the game. Lots of folks have gotten way farther than I was ever able to (round 7). I really wanted to avoid making the game challenging for me (since I'd been playing it for 3 days straight) and accidentally making it way too hard for someone playing it for the first time. Always happy to be wrong though
I thought for sure that length would be the better upgrade, up until you could no longer swing a full circle in the arena. But the consensus has certainly been that width is OP