Thanks for the feedback! Poke All Toads is on my list, so you'll be getting a review this weekend as well
The performance is an issue i'm slowly improving. Usually every patch adds a couple of dozen frames on my machine, since I honestly believe a game of this nature should be able to be played on toasters. I know of an issue that some testers have with Unity games, where they need to add -force-opengl to their launch settings in the .exe. this brought up a tester's frames in the main menu from 5 to 700+, perhaps that might be the same issue you're having?
Either way, looking forward to hearing more from you should you decide to play more!