I sometimes see people claiming Baldur's Gate 3 isn't woke. It occurs to me that this is only possible because people don't publicly spoil the story.
So here's what happens in BG3.
Act 2: the macguffin you've been searching for is actually an angel. A female angel. A butchy lesbian female angel. Who is fucking the bad guy's daughter. And that badass lesbian angel totally kills her girlfriend's mean dad.
Act 3: the mindflayer you've been working with is actually Baldur, the namesake of the entire franchise. Also, there's a dragon living beneath the city. And the two of them were gay lovers. That's right. Baldur's Gate was named after a gay mindflayer who was fucking a gay dragon.
So the biggest reveals in the game are super fucking gay, but no one talks about them because that would be spoiling the story. Isn't that clever?
People don't understand it, but this was one of the first games successfully marketed to women who gobbled it up like crack.
The point of the "bear sex" wasn't "teh ghey", it was capitalizing on the monsters sex fetish that has been prevalent for some time.
Balduron illithid dragon sex was similar in that it wasn't about the ghey, its the ultimate women's yaoi content of mega powerful creatures in sexy time.
Gameplay? Turnbased and perfectly approachable for women who can't do fast twitch games.
Voice acting was heavily invested in so that all the female characters would be catty but eventually tell you how beautiful you are, and all the male characters fall in love with you.
The most popular character? The "I can fix him" obviously evil daywalker sparkly vampire with a young male body in ancient wisdom undead and power.
All my wife's friends are apeshit over the game and they play it over and over. I have seen lines for the Astarion voice actor at conventions dwarf any other guest and its mostly women creaming themselves.
I have some male friends liked it and played through once. I tried playing it, act 1 was good but I lost interest. It wasn't a game designed for us.
So the elf vampire companion who damned dozens of literal children to death is a big hit with the ladies? Imagine that!
I clearly didn't get to that part, but it sure fits exactly.
They love psychopaths