On the topic of woke games, and on the topic of disability or being visibly trans, there's a game I remember from a couple of years ago called
Spiritfarer.
You play as some black girl with a big hat and you help spirits in the afterlife resolve their problems, coming to terms with trauma and moving on.
Well, that's all well and good but one of the characters, depicted as an owl in the afterlife, had a disability that slowly decreased his mobility and he eventually ended up in a wheelchair. His trauma and his story is full of bitterness and hatred towards his wheelchair, and his owl form in the afterlife gave him what he desired the most: the freedom to move around.
This didn't sit very well with one twitter user, who is also a wheelchair user. She was upset that a character was depicted as hating his disability and hating his chair, because to her her chair is not a negative, yada yada.
The game devs eventually
published an apology and vowed to do better. They went ahead and changed the story of the character completely, despite the fact that the story was based on a real human's experience with his disability and his chair.
It's a minor shitstorm and controversy that has stuck with me for years now. Imagine that, a single person disagrees with how another disabled person views their disability. They cried ableism. One person. Not an army of troons threatening violence upon women for not letting them be perverts in the women's restroom.
If it hadn't been for this minor controversy, I don't think I would have heard of the game. If it hadn't been for the devs bending the knee, I might have bought the game.
As it stands, Spiritfarer is a medium to heavy when it comes to woke points because of the controversy. I could largely ignore the nigger you play as because the art isn't bad. A bit furbait'y but otherwise harmless and cozy.
sorry if I've brought up this game before ITT. I'm still so utterly shocked that a dev team would bend the knee over a tweet that has since been deleted and nearly scrubbed from the internet.