POSTAL 2
BANGER · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 7h
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, 32MB GeForce 2 or Radeon Video Card, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
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?
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in December 2014. It has been discounted 144 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value 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 $50.21, and you are being asked for $9.99.
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 says about 4 percent of players ever finish it. On a 7-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 21 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 13,923 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.
137,725 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.
The drop-off
68% start to 4% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 7-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
320 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I thought Postal 2 was just another ridiculous game where you walk around causing chaos because the developers thought it would be funny. I was wrong. The graphics are dated. The gameplay looks chaotic. The world feels completely unhinged. And somehow, that's exactly the point. You start out thinking you're just going to mess around for a few minutes. Then you realize the game is giving you an absurd amount of...
Go on, tell me another game where you can piss on elephants and turn them on fire. I'll be waiting.
lowk grinded tf outta this again, and dam i forgot how ♥♥♥ good this game is, cop ts instant ps: i regret nothing
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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POSTAL 2 scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/223470/postal-2The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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