I really enjoyed the art-style and the little beeps and boops. The use of the countdown for the turns irked me though - for turn-based games, a lot of the joy for me comes from plotting my next next move and thinking over my decisions - with the timer constantly ticking down, it felt like I was wasting turns constantly. I also felt as though for changing the speed, the controls were reversed from how I would associate speeding up and slowing down. I think if the countdown was removed you would have the groundwork for a really solid turn-based strategy game.