What is a "Woke" Game

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Ok, after reading the thread this far: yes, the term woke doesn't make sense at all, because it largely refers to "social justice" policies you see the "left" wing in the USA supporting. However, the policies or rhetoric demanding the policies are often self-contradicting: people say they want sexism to end and demand equality, but at the same time "historical wrongness" needs to be corrected, so as long as there's been more men than women in positions of power, we need to choose only women to positions of power. Women are oppressed in the muslim world, so western women need privileges to combat global inequality. Minorities aren't represented as much as the majority, so we need DEI hires to have equal representations. Society needs atheism, but it's islamophobia. And so on.

Someone mentioned that people don''t complain about woke when a game (or a movie) is good, and I agree on that one. That's largely because good games and movies tend not to make a number about it's character's otherness.
Had Alien been cosidered woke today? Likely yes, because it's impossible to tell when someone is given a lead role because of her sex and when not. However, today the Ripley we saw in Alien, had likely been like the one in Alien 4, which would make it woke. Nobody considered Jill Valentine and Claire Redfield woke either. Prince of Persia had some Iranian dude, Mario Bros had Italians and neither is considered woke. If Punch-out had been made today with the characters it has, everyone would be crying out loud how offensive it is.

In the end, If you want to see Europeans in movies, you need to watch European movies, If you want to see Africans in movies, you need to watch African movies, If you want to see Asians in movies, you need to watch Asian movies, If you want to see Americans on movies, tough luck; there's DEI hires with Asians, Africans and Europeans, with the occasional jew in them.