BioShock Remastered places story and world-building at the forefront, with characters defined more by ideology, philosophy, and personal choices than by their identity traits. Forced representation or identity-first casting is largely absent. The core conflict is about power, ethics, and free will, not diversity checkboxes. At most, there’s some background diversity, but it feels organic rather than shoehorned.

The game critiques utopian ideals, ideology, and distorted interpretations of objectivism and religion rather than cultural foundations themselves. Masculinity, family, and morality are explored through flawed, complex characters, not attacked or mocked. There's some subversiveness, but not in the modern sense of woke cultural revisionism.

BioShock actually revels in ideological conflict and debate. Competing worldviews, objectivism, collectivism, religiosity, are dissected rather than homogenized. While it critiques various ideologies, it doesn't just prop up one modern worldview as morally superior. Sincere (if flawed) representation is given to multiple perspectives, so there’s no overwhelming ideological monoculture.