1997 · Psychological Horror · Villain Protagonist · Horror
How long isPOSTAL?
by Running With Scissors
3 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 55 minutes and 5.5 hours
Holds up all the way: 95–96% of its reviewers recommend it at every stage past two hours.
86% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
95% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
96% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
96% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
95% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
96% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
Does POSTAL hold up?
Holds steady
At least 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 100 hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 3 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 55 minutes and 5.5 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 14,700 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 95% and 96% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
When would you get there?
3days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 3 hours on Tuesday, November 17.
Half of its reviewers had played between 55 minutes and 5.5 hours: tonight to Nov 20 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Where do players get filtered in POSTAL?
The filter
Half-mast hard-on
14 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold Oh, you press F1! and never earned it.
How this is counted
33% of the players who launched POSTAL hold Oh, you press F1!, its first story achievement on Steam, and 17% hold Get a girlfriend, its last. The steepest drop comes between Oh, you press F1! (33%) and Half-mast hard-on (19%).
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
Where did you leave it?
Stopped part way? Your Steam profile brings back the story so far, read aloud, up to the last story achievement you hold. Nothing past it.
No Steam, or played it elsewhere?
Where can I play POSTAL today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS5, Switch, PS4 and 1 more.
- todayAndroid2015
- todayPC2016remade
- todaySwitch2020remade
- todayPS42021remade
- Dreamcast2022
- todayPS52024remade
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines POSTAL came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like POSTAL?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like POSTAL, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long POSTAL would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@tyr holds this page
- 1st
@tyr27 h - 2nd
@eltorga9.7 h - 3rd
@ermoldan3.7 h - 4th
@horny1.3 h - 5th
@foxworks35 min - 6th
@deafsuki35 min - 7th
@ravage23 min - 8th
@veliallast13 min
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with POSTAL?
1 in 37
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
Games like POSTAL
Halo: Spartan Assault
POSTAL, but sci-fi, and more divisive
Mixed · 78%Games like Halo: Spartan Assault
Alien Breed 2: Assault
POSTAL, but co-op, and third-person
Mixed · 70%Games like Alien Breed 2: Assault
The Hong Kong Massacre
POSTAL, but with bullet time, and more divisive
Mixed · 72%Games like The Hong Kong Massacre
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from POSTAL: a kind of game it is that POSTAL is not, a feature its tags carry that POSTAL's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.