POSTAL 2

POSTAL 2

BANGER · Shooter · 2012

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$9.99BANGER

Typical seasonal cut

$0.9990% offBANGER

Cost per hour▼
$1.43/hr
ReviewsS
97% of 139,293
Critics
59 players 38 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
7h
To 100%
33.2h 4.7x the story
Finish
4% reach the ending
Achievements
89

Price and sales

Sales
147 on record
Typical cut
90% off
Steam low
$0.99 December 2014
Sale every
32d last October 2026
Lowest now $0.99 at Fanaticalall-time low $0.74 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
613 now
Recent reviews
96% 30 days
Cheaper than
46% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

68% start to 4% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 147 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 2 days ago.

Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, POSTAL 4: No Regerts ($19.99, scores 13) and Destroy All Humans! ($29.99, scores 56) both come in lower.

The math says it holds its tier up to $50.18, and you are being asked for $9.99.

More about POSTAL 2

The press gave it 59; the people who bought it give it 97 percent. A 38-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 21 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 13,974 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 7 hours. Doing everything runs 33, 4.7 times as long.

139,293 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.

At 7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 2 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Replayability~33h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 7h main story
Engagement4% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.43/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds21 of 799 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Helps me vent out my frustrations by unleashing mass murder and pissing on people, while I go and confess my sins to the lord on Tuesday.
Over9mRecommendedafter 2.6h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
Final boss calls you slurs while shooting milk at you from his giant udders. Perfect game.
KnosatRecommendedafter 22h34 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Bu oyunu oynayarak büyüdük. Saldırganlık ve şiddete eğilim oyunlardan değil, aile bünyesinde verilen eğitimden geçer. Aile eğitim vermezse çocuk kendine eğitim alacak, imrenecek birini arar. Elde edilen sonuç hayra veya bir faydaya delalet değildir. Bir çocuk bir suç işliyorsa yapılacak şey bunu maruz kaldığı içeriklere değil, buna maruz kaldığını bile bile gerçekle ve sahtenin farkını öğretmeyen, böyle şeyleri...
EmRecommendedafter 2.6h15 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, 32MB GeForce 2 or Radeon Video Card, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

Cite this score

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POSTAL 2 scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/223470/postal-2
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+38
Critics59
Players97
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 139,293 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperRunning With Scissors
PublisherRunning With Scissors
GenreShooter
Released2012
Players7.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements89