Thanks for the recommendations!
The game playing slow is a bit of a consequence of me never managing to add in a pause menu, originally you were going to be able to control the turn timer, so you could set it to the speed you were most comfortable with instead of being forced to play fast, but no menu means no place to set that, so I just hardcoded some midpoint value that I thought would be ok for making it accessible.
I'll keep in mind the idea of giving Neuro more abilities, you're right that it could be quite cool, just gotta think of what I could give her without making the game too easy...