A blog that reviews wokeness in games, I'm not the OP
(playingwithwokeness.com)
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I appreciate the idea behind wokeness scores, but in execution I think this guy isn't scoring things very well.
Control is a bit woke. Women all good, men all bad. I think it's a little bit woker than baseline, but he gives it a 3/20.
Greedfall is pretty woke, gets 4/20. Tons of black scientist faction, interracial/gay romances, and lots of women-good/men-bad. It was surprisingly woke for an Eastern European studio.
Outer Worlds is WOKE AS FUCK, only 6/20. 100% women good, men bad. 100% capitalism evil. 100% immigration good. There's a multi-hour companion quest where you try and support your companion's gay romance.
Meanwhile Borderlands gets a 12/20. WTF? It's woke, but it's certainly not twice as woke as Outer Worlds.
The rubric is all messed up. Plague Tale: perfectly period accurate 1/5pts, Outer Worlds: Space Western 0/5pts.
Outer Worlds is so committed to being woke that the Gay Companion quest is longer than nearly everyone else's combined, and the only one you will have to literally work for by going everywhere back and forth.
I agree 100% with your points. The review does help though. It made me not want to play Outer Worlds even if it had a low score. The final score is not good.
It would be better if people just had a "wokeness complaint board" for movies and games. Like after playing or watching something they can leave a comment about anything they happened to notice.