We got back to the game again this morning and with a fresh set of eyes we figured out that the game was missing a whooping 3 lines of code which was breaking the entire game, but that's game jams for you.
We've now got a post-jam version if you want to check it out for the intended gameplay. We're intending to further update later down the line, happy raiding!
https://tobiashenriksson.itch.io/slaves-to-the-meta-post-gmtk-game-jam-version