I played a couple of rounds, it’s very interesting, I appreciated the tutorial and it’s actually very un to see the number going up and down. I would however link the timer to either the number of card drawn, played or/and discarded. Making it somewhat turn based and not strickly limited by IRL time. Also, I think the “double for each connected cities” is wrong, for example one city was at 20 connected to only one, and it peaked at 99 for reasons x)
I would love to see it debugged, polished, with an end screen and maybe with some events happening so the text zone used for the tutorial is later used again + it created more challenge.