It's not difficult. It's just broken. After an hour of play and picking only options with an above 50% chance of success, 90% of them were all failures. And that's being optimistic.  There are also a myriad of pointless events that only exist to give the player grief. What's even worse is that there are very few events the game even has to pick from in the first place. Try getting the food replicator poisoning event five times in a row. Hell, the first jump to the first system on my first time playing everything failed and I got almost nothing

Much like the game Out There, it wildly misunderstands the term roguelike and turns itself into an unfun roulette wheel that has to be slogged through. for mediocre enjoyment.