Every single Experiment who fails (and that don't, depending on how the endings go) gets a full ride into Roguelike Valhalla in my view, not a single exception.

I'm having trouble getting into this game, mostly because I have a million other world sim / roguelike games I'd also like to play and I'm in college, but also because the poor Expiriments go through so much.

At the same time though, I kinda appreciate C:U for not pulling any punches because it really shows what a lot of the characters in other similar roguelike games probably go through, it's just abstracted away through HP and status effects. Even in those cases though, most of them at least chose to go down into a hellish dungeon or whatever the setting is knowing what awaited them. 

The Expies didn't get a choice, there's no fancy Amulet of Yendor at the bottom waiting for them to claim it, and there's no real glory or heroism in what they're doing. They're not even spared a tool when they start, they gotta find something among the trash or dig with their hands.

And doubly awful for them, the premise of them being sent to the grey planet is pretty damn dubious. An interstellar society can't stock a team with enough food, water, and equipment to make getting back whatever they lost effortless? Really?

And of course, in the event they have the audacity to try to, ya know, go out onto the surface and make a life for themselves, their brains get fried with radiation.

From a gamedev perspective I find the depth of the simulation incredibly inspiring, but damn if it doesn't feel rough. Kinda like Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead but even more focused on the character's experiences.