The ‘Screamer’ remake of this year definitely has story and progression. I haven’t played it myself but I’ve watched quite a bit of playthrough and for racing games the narrative was downright impressive.

The driving is apparently some kind of twin stick drift thing which seems interesting but yeah I can’t say much about that.

Presentation is very modern gatcha-esque, so some impressive cg plus 2d animation, and a lot of character sprite plus textbox vn style dialogue, fully voiced but with subtitles as default as the characters are voiced in their in universe language. So unless you are a real polyglot you’ll be reading.

There is main and side story’s, several teams with 3 characters each, seemingly real world building, writing that is especially for racing games quite bold and competent, lots of narrative conflicts, with characters having interna. Depending on how you feel it might be a tad edgy or anime for you, but from what I’ve seen it’s not particularly egregious, no high school stuff, only somewhat exaggerated characters, no edge without some story basis…

So it’s definitely big budget, but it seems to not have really gathered that much attention.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2814990/Screamer/

It’s not your or any others singular car forcing anyone to drive. It’s the expectation that an adult person can drive and needs to use a car that forces or at least pushes everything towards driving.

If the design and soundscape of almost any space weren’t impacted negatively by cars I wouldn’t think they’d be forcing anything onto me. But that is reality even in nominally not car dependent inner city Germany. So that’s why I hate cars.

Slay the Spire without doubt 2.5k on steam plus some switch and mobile.

If you group the Trackmania games those do come close, and maybe Minecraft but I have barely touched that game in the last decade and no way to check hours from back then.

Either the robbery is severe enough for the person who was robbed to assemble a little group to catch the robber or they just let it slide. If we know some info about the robber we could let any institutions in the surrounding area know that this person is to be exiled or at least that his missteps be brought up before he is again considered to be part of polite society.

Local neighbourhood watch /militias could also exist and take over some of the polices current work especially when it comes to groups of potentially violent perpetrators.

None of this is going to be particularly effective but it’s not like currently a robbery, or most other crimes are likely to be effectively prosecuted either so I don’t see the big issue.

There are more watertight arguments made by anarchists, syndicalists and the like that you could read and agree or disagree with. But at the end of the day there is little ability for either of us to demonstrate, to me that the police can be fixed with any proposed method, and to you that society without police would work/ be more fair. So ultimately we are not gonna get much further here.

Cops are a few hundert years old concept why would they be necessary now when most places they barely existed pre ww1.

Your second paragraph is just as pie in the sky as abolishing, specifically because as with every position entailing power over others, authoritarians will flock to it.

The police was created so that wealth and power can effectively use part of the state for physical protection of their assets and lives, and that is still their operating background, the management of the local meat packing factory or the amazon warehouse will have much greater access to police resources than you or your plumber, by design, the law is imperfect and cops are not doing their job, more or less on purpose. And this status quo will not change unless at least some part of this system is entirely redone.

If the greater context in which the police exists, makes normal people scared of consequences, and powerful people immune to consequences enacted by police, why should any normal person argue for their existence.