Thank you so much for playing! I'm sorry to hear that the combination of lag and timer stressed you out! We have some graphics settings that might help with the lag (you can open the menu with escape but forgot to acknowledge that and the timer doesn't stop in the menu... probably not really a great help with the timer stress :')) Although, I don't know how much that will help with framerate issues since we weren't able to stress test performance. Just thought I would mention it (and should note the settings on our download page if someone else has similar issues). But I'm glad to hear you had fun despite the stress!!