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.
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.