This game doesn't run very well on my laptop, despite plenty of more complicated games running well. It's a shame that there's no graphics settings, because if there was I could enjoy all the animations instead of everything being so choppy :/
Steam is usually on in the background but I don't usually have issues running most games. I think some graphics settings would fix my problem. I'm not sure if you're culling the background characters when they're off-screen but that would probably help too