For me update to Sequoia has not changed the behavior. It is going well first, but then starts to degrade. It looks like a typical garbage collection problem in Java, and as it is seen, that it goes worse and worse - IMHO looks like a leak problem.

I think main point here, that it worked flawless with old version on the same hardware. Reddit full of posts about same problem for other Mac users.

I was previously playing even on 12" macbook without huge problems, now I have M3 with 24 Gb, and was enjoying the game until it was updated to Space ...