I've played about 5000 cumulative hours of roguelike games in my life and Nightreign is easily the most demoralizing soul-crushing one
Losing to the boss means you just wasted 40 minutes of your life running between the same 3 camps and castle layouts and choosing whether to get another flamberge or another forked greatsword for your boss rewards since From forgot that the fun of roguelikes is in getting cool rewards and gear synergies during the run
It makes me stop playing for 2 days every time I eat shit and lose