Anyone take a look at The Long Dark? Episodic survival game set in Northern Canada, final episode gets released at the end of this month. Holding off on making a review so far, but... it seems fairly woke from what I've seen so far. Main story is about two survivors - pilot Will Mackenzie and freelance doctor Astrid Greenwood, former couple - whose plane crashes in the wilderness of Great Bear island, which has been going through a complete economic collapse. A mysterious aurora has resulted in all electronic equipment shutting off and the wildlife to go crazy hostile, forcing the two survivors to separately travel to a village up north to reunite, all the while dealing with both hostile wildlife and a bunch of escaped prisoners from the local jail. Not to mention, the aurora causes all electrical equipment to come to life and go haywire at night, making survival a bit more complex.
In terms of characters... Will is fairly decent, Astrid is a bit rude but has some justification (watched a bunch of civilians get burned alive will do that to you), NPCs are more mixed, though. The prison warden, bear hunter and local priest are shown as sympathetic, the prisoners are pretty stereotypically evil (and mostly white), the blind old lady that Will meets in Chapter 1 is shown to be tragic and has actual layers to her character (her age and disabilities are shown realistically and as legit issues), and old man Methuselah is... annoyingly cryptic. However, Episode 3 has Astrid dealing with Molly, a feminist serial killer who wants to slaughter men because her husband was abusive (though the game doesn't admittedly treat her as wholly likable for it), while Will in Chapter 4 has to deal with Jace, a rather girlbossy black woman who apparently knows all about the aurora, and somehow managed to hack the prison systems in the daytime (despite that being hammered in as legit impossible previously) to impede the prisoners from rescuing some guy who's played up as the "ultimate evil" or some shit.
Bear in mind, the game forces Will to help or kill a prisoner earlier, and killing the guy (after he legit bragged about setting women and children on fire, nonetheless) is treated as the worse option, narratively.
I'm going to wait until the last Episode drops and I can watch it all the way through, but... I'm not exactly expecting anything good so far. Jace and Molly really aren't great, the former especially.
