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2012 · Dark Humor · Third-Person Shooter · Open World

How long isPostal 3?

by Trashmasters & Zoom Platform

3.5 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 1 hour and 7.5 hours

Poorly received: only 57% recommend it past the refund window; most action games here, 90%.

Does Postal 3 hold up?

Grows on people

Do the first two hours of Postal 3 tell you?

In the first two hours31%recommend it

After that57%recommend it

10 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 10 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 3.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 1 hour and 7.5 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 6,360 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It grows on people: 49% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 74% at 20–50 hours.

38% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 31% of those recommend it. After the window, 57% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 51% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 2 hours in.

When would you get there?

4days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 3.5 hours on Saturday, October 24.

Half of its reviewers had played between 1 and 7.5 hours: tonight to Oct 28 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 3?

The filter

THE CHOICE WAS YOURS!

30 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold DO NOT PUSH THE BUTTON! and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. DO NOT PUSH THE BUTTON!Disobey orders, given to you, and see what happens.−4060% hold it
  3. THE CHOICE WAS YOURS!Choose path for the first time.Filtered −3030% hold it
  4. REPO MANReturn Thegways to the owner−1119% hold it
  5. SPECIAL OLYMPIANBeat the game once. No restrictions apply. Everyone's a winner.−217% hold it
How this is counted

60% of the players who launched Postal 3 hold DO NOT PUSH THE BUTTON!, its first story achievement on Steam, and 17% hold SPECIAL OLYMPIAN, its last. The steepest drop comes between DO NOT PUSH THE BUTTON! (60%) and THE CHOICE WAS YOURS! (30%).

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.

Is Postal 3 worth it?

Is Postal 3 worth it? Mostly.

  • Good value

    1.3× the hours of a typical action game, for the same money

  • Divisive

    57% recommend it after the refund windowmost action games: 90%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $5.99, the typical player's 3.5 hours come to $1.71 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 57% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.71 an hour, Postal 3 is cheaper per hour than 1538 of 2366 action games here: the typical one of 2366 action games here charges $2.31, so the same $5.99 buys 1.3× the hours.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (action games) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Would you like Postal 3?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Postal 3, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Postal 3 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.

Games like Postal 3

All 30 games like Postal 3, and which you already own
How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.