This week I played Euro Truck Simulator 2 after I don't know how long. I posted about it on my Mastodon server and there's a chance that this evening I'll play it multiplayer with three complete strangers.
Here in Northern Italy near Bergamo, we have something called "Gratacornia", an half human-half goat creature, which was used to scare kids. The Gratacornia waits for the kid on top of the stairs in darkness and scratches his hooves with his long horns (Gratacornia is formed merging "Grata"=to scratch and "Cornia"=horns).
Yes, it happened to me once. I dreamed I was the main character in GTA: San Andreas, but I wasn't CJ, I was myself inside the game. It was pretty weird, but stealing a truck was amazing.
I don't think there are, but in OsmAnd you can tell the app to avoid certain roads. It's not really what you're looking for, but I think that this is the closest you will get (for now).
If you are talking about the arrow during the navigation, when the navigation starts use two fingers to rotate the map. This will make a little compass appear on the upper left corner of the screen. Tap on it until you get the map printed in the direction of the movement.
Privacy: trackers, trackers, trackers
Security: you can't know where you would be taken with a short link. A legit website? A malicious website? Who knows.
True, but I think that Liberty City would be very weird without a grey tone on it. Having it very bright like Los Santos in GTA V would have made it almost comical, which would have made the story less mafia-like.
GTA IV is weird compared to the others GTA (it misses the big booms and the big vehicles that are present in the other titles of the series) but it's a good game taken on his own.
I took it with my smartphone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro). We visited the MoPop, very interesting, but we passed the Glass museum since we didn't have enough time for that.
Have you ever tried something based on OpenStreetMap? Apps like Organic Maps or OsmAnd are really useful and work offline too.