I think the speed is totally ok personally, didn’t feel too slow at all - maybe you can have your cake and eat it too by having an option in the main menu to disable the countdown?
Wrt the bribe balancing- it feels weird that you can take a bribe for someone who’s already going to win. By the ~$100 mark a lot of the bribes were about even so I would just take the winner’s bribe and then reduce the red bar a bit. by $250 it felt like the loser was starting to bribe more so if that was a teaching moment I think you actually did a good job of walking me to the door there :) (but it seems random)
as far as bribe balancing goes, the countdown (or before the countdown) feels like a cool spot to take bribes before you know what the outcome is, would be a bit of a different game tho
For general feedback:
- the “click to do X” made me think I could click the whole screen, I would make those things clearly a button
- I like the music, it’s vibey
- I would move the hiscore because on my second game I kept looking at that number instead of the one on the right
- maybe a red outline for the amount of damage you’ll take for taking a bribe when you’re hovering over the bag?