Thanks for the comprehensive feedback, I’m glad you enjoyed my game! I will continue developing this game, so this is really useful to me!
The title font is actually not upscaled, its the Mr Henry Font (CC0), it just doesn’t work well with low resolutions (the same font is used in the high res banner on the game page).
As for getting fifth place, I always find it hard to adjust the difficulty of my games (I’m able to catch up to first place during the second lap)