The Store page says: "non-stop racing action" and "spanning huge and varied open world environments". Does this equate to Burnout Paradise endless drives with immediate resets to the track? I am looking for a DRM free alternative to that game.

Hi, it's more like Need for speed Hot pursuit 2010 : during the race/pursuit, you are on rails.

A demo exist : https://www.gamepressure.com/download/crash-time-5-undercover-eng-demo/zca029

and also mods (including a freeroam mod)

https://eleven-games.de/index.php?site=files

https://www.moddb.com/games/crash-time-5-undercover/mods


In my opinion Crash Time 3 is the best of the serie (night races option) and the 4 has a real place (downtown Köln is faithfully recreated - go Google maps).
CT 2 has a less realistic but fun map.
CT 5 suffers from the comparison with NFS Hot Pursuit but at least it's a change from the urban environment of the other games.

and all games have splitscreen :-)