Another element not mentioned was how religion is handled. The player is given the choice to express belief in God (who is left largely undefined), or to express religious skepticism. There are characters in the game who are serious about their religion, and you need to interact with them. Again, as you role play, it is open enough that the player may attribute his own stance to the character.

Well , all one has to do is look at and listen to creator Todd Howard. He is a poster boy for woke. He comes from the same social species stratosphere as do other wokeriffic organisms. Even before Starfield’s release critics called it and foresaw the wokery that was to come. Starfield is Todd’s baby. Every mother will nurture her baby in her likeness.

Thanks a lot for the detailed review and insights. Gaming is the only escape from the sad reality we’re living in these days and I’m really not able to tolerate much wokeness in games since it destroys immersion. I classify Starfield as woke, although I have only 7 hours on it.

Please keep the good work, I really wish we had more content like this site on the internet.

But I digress; we’re dealing with subjectivity here and there’s no way to avoid it. Everyone is going to have a different level of sensitivity to these things, so while I stand by the “woke-ish” rating for Starfield, I do understand why you might disagree, and as you pointed out, by giving you facts the review should allow you to make your own judgement about whether you consider those things full-on woke.

True, but with Starfield it often difficult to tell what ethnicity many of the NPC’s are. Many of them are so ugly it’s easy to question if they are even human. I could have used Mongoloid instead I suppose.

Don’t say ‘person of color’, that’s woke talk. Just say a black or Mexican