How are you engaging the enemies? With the axe? Did you get any upgrades? I'm trying to see how i can tune the game to stay a challenge while not being frustrating.
I was fighting them with only the axe for the first few days before I got the update, and over the days they accumulated and killed me (I'm bad at arrow keys lol) but rest assured it wasn't frustrating. After getting the upgrades I managed to stay alive and beat the game in one go.