Your title says pretty little since its a buzz-word that can mean a hundred things.
Its not a historical simulation, so man and women can each fill every job and same sex relationships are normal, if that defines "woke" to you then yes.

Mid-spoilers ahead.
There is one non-binary and one polyamorous character. All of the dating options turn to be bisexual . There are disabled people too, different kinds of.
The point is the game doesnt force you to marry, love and respect them. Actually, you can lead all of them to death or even execute .
So, I would put it like that. The game isnt woke but its full of diversity of all kinds.

I sure hope it is. Pretty much anything decent gets called "woke" by someone.

Originally posted by galadon3:

Your title says pretty little since its a buzz-word that can mean a hundred things.

Everybody knows what woke means, including you. Some just like to play pretend and obfuscate, including you. But when things get down to business, the truth usually becomes apparent... including in your case.

Originally posted by galadon3:

Its not a historical simulation, so man and women can each fill every job and same sex relationships are normal, if that defines "woke" to you then yes.

Yep, see, you get it.

I'll add that "woke" doesn't automatically mean "bad game", but it does mean there's a political agenda being pushed/present/paid service to, and if it gets priority over everything else, game quality may (and very often does) suffer as a result.

Originally posted by Typical_Name:

I sure hope it is. Pretty much anything decent gets called "woke" by someone.

Erm, no. It just so happens that wokeness is (or was until very recently) being pushed by corporations and government, which was why so many products had it, including (obviously) some decent ones.

Regarding this game, I think it's woke, but it's a medium kind of woke that doesn't intrude or impose too much upon the player. Woke on the down low, so to say. And as previously mentioned, there's a big redeeming quality in player freedom, like Baldur's Gate 3 where you had very clearly woke characters and situations, but also the freedom to avoid them almost entirely. (Including by killing said characters). So overall it's pretty tolerable compared to some of the more outrageous woke titles.

Originally posted by Blackdragon:

Originally posted by galadon3:

Your title says pretty little since its a buzz-word that can mean a hundred things.

Everybody knows what woke means, including you. Some just like to play pretend and obfuscate, including you. But when things get down to business, the truth usually becomes apparent... including in your case.

Originally posted by galadon3:

Its not a historical simulation, so man and women can each fill every job and same sex relationships are normal, if that defines "woke" to you then yes.

Yep, see, you get it.

I'll add that "woke" doesn't automatically mean "bad game", but it does mean there's a political agenda being pushed/present/paid service to, and if it gets priority over everything else, game quality may (and very often does) suffer as a result.

Originally posted by Typical_Name:

I sure hope it is. Pretty much anything decent gets called "woke" by someone.

Erm, no. It just so happens that wokeness is (or was until very recently) being pushed by corporations and government, which was why so many products had it, including (obviously) some decent ones.

Regarding this game, I think it's woke, but it's a medium kind of woke that doesn't intrude or impose too much upon the player. Woke on the down low, so to say. And as previously mentioned, there's a big redeeming quality in player freedom, like Baldur's Gate 3 where you had very clearly woke characters and situations, but also the freedom to avoid them almost entirely. (Including by killing said characters). So overall it's pretty tolerable compared to some of the more outrageous woke titles.

This is a bit silly, don't you think? Corporations aren't pushing "wokeness" (again, a vaguely-defined-at-best term that seems to mean whatever fascists are angry about at the moment), they're making concessions because a significant amount of the market wants to see more [insert demographic relevant to them] in their games (or, for a lot of indie games, because the authors themselves want to see those things). Other corporations market in the opposite direction because they think they can get more money by appealing to bigots. Both things *can* be political statements because of the context surrounding them, but "gay/trans/etc people exist in this game" isn't itself inherently political (or at least *shouldn't* be).

If Mistwinter Bay were claiming to be a realistic historical depiction of our world (or similar to it), yeah, it'd be rather anachronistic that the player character seems to always be non-binary (there's no pronoun selection and characters seem to go out of their way to avoid gendering the player character), orientation is never an issue in romancing people (even for the few characters that explicitly have one), and patriarchy seems to not exist. But this isn't our medieval era, this is a fantasy land where people regularly do magic, elementals exist and have their own countries, a magic tree holds the world together, and gods are real beings that you can talk to. No one (or at least I hope no one...) goes around saying things like "oi, what's with this blue-skinned person?! There weren't blue-skinned people in medieval europe! ♥♥♥♥♥♥' wokeness gone mad, I say!" - but we DO get people complaining whenever they see a woman or a gay or black person in certain settings, even where they actually existed historically.