Thank you for the feedback - much appreciated!
The trick is to constantly move and strafe around the skeletons - they are faster but have slower acceleration, so strafing, tapping sprint and hitting them to knock them back is the trick (The torch can also hit multiple enemies at once and does more damage, but leaves you more vulnerable.)
And yeah, having too many skeletons hitting you at once effectively stun locks you.
I will definitely keep these things in mind for future updates - Balance adjustments and difficulty options are in the to-do list :)