POSTAL
Worth it · Shooter · 1997
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 14,641
- Critics
- 56 players 36 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Shooter
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.4h
- To 100%
- 13.8h 5.8x the story
- Finish
- 17% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 27
Players and genre
- Online
- 44 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 88% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
55% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Its score puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Hatred ($5.99, scores 67) and X-Morph: Defense ($19.99, scores 69).
It is still busy. 44 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 2, 14:46 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.
More about POSTAL
Critics scored it 56. Players sit 36 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.4-hour game, that is a lot of evenings the rest never spend. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 1,114 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.4 hours; clearing it takes 14, which is 5.8 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
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
What players say
Fun game, while it is fun its very very buggy but thats sort of due for games like this.
2 more reviews
It was fun. I don't think this Postal guy did anything wrong, and the cops just attacked him for no reason. In a world gone mad, it definitely makes sense. The Japanese levels are my favorite, because you're saving Japan from these mad communists.
Play this version of the game. Do not buy the Postal Redux remake. It's woke-they gender-swapped multiple enemies and race-swapped others, making all the characters look like goofy cartoon characters. Not to mention, they even changed the ending of the game.
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About the game
Take control of The POSTAL Dude in his infamous first outing as he battles to survive in a world gone mad! POSTAL is a classic isometric shooter filled to the brim with fast-paced explosive action.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
POSTAL scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/232770/postalReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.