woke = contempt for the audience
for me atleast this is the best way to describe woke games. The devs dont want to make a game anyone loves, they want to talk down to you. They fucking hate you and want to make a game with this odd smug aura only libshits can emulate. But nobody wants to buy a product from people that hate them and dont even care about making something good, therefore it fails. BG3 succeeded because despite being full of gay shit or whatever the devs are clearly passionate about their game, they want you to enjoy it and have fun. Veilguard, that one saints row game, nu-nu wolfenstein? Yeah everyone with a slightly functional brain avoided it because the devs of those games hate you.