Thank you very much for playing and rating my game!
I'm happy to give Global Patriots a go once I got home from work :-)
Thank you very much for your questions, as they made me realize that it is important to add a little clarification to the game page! :D
So you got the Dual Axe as starting weapon. The Dual Axe fires only to the right at first (level 1) but with every level gained (up to level 4) it will fire an additional Axe in the other directions (left, up, down). And every 4 levels gained the axes will pierce through 1 additional enemy. So basically you want to try to kite the enemies on your right in the beginning. You can try the Sword or the Staff instead, they work differently.
I focused on getting the game done in time, so I just dropped the story entirely :'D
Since English isn't my native language I just got the definition of "last stand" which is "a position against overwhelming odds" and I thought that a Vampire Survivors like game would fit nicely :D
Stacking the dice is indeed unintentional. The values are changing once a die is put into a slot. I really need to make it clear which slot modifies which values and I really need to fix that stacking bug! :'D