A mindless shoot-them-up game for the whole family.

This game is nothing more than shooting people in the face, burn them, blow them up and pump their whole family full of lead. Easy and mindless but fun in a strange way.

You can play the campaign where you rampage trough different parts of the town, each time with a mandatory kill requirement. There are also many challenges you can complete. So, for its time, and still today, it is a huge game.

The game looks good for its time, the graphics and psychics are really well done, and the animations are fluent.

The sound is also surprisingly good with the constant moaning of dying people, the explosion sounds and the screams of people who are on fire. Yes, I can say this quite casually now because I also finished Postal 2.

For the time, this game was one big scandal and I can totally see why. Nowadays it is nothing more than a big shooting gallery where your only goal is to murder as much of the population as possible.

The reason I recommend this game is because the achievements make it fun to play. Normally after killing a whole neighborhood I am done with the game but the fact that you can achieve something makes it fun. Except for the “one million bullet achievement” of course, that one was sadistic.

Overall, it is free now so if you have a sadistic mood and some time to spend, give it a try.

i think this game is phenomenal. it was extremely violent for its time and it made some serious waves, mostly because of that. sure, its violent, but thats the whole point. postal shows you what a mass shooter on a rampage is like with zero glorification and what can happen if someone with mental illness doesnt get the help they need. the art direction is so good and so gritty and it fits so well. the ambiance adds to the experience, and postal dude is such an enigmatic character(especially when compared to his later iterations).
truly one of the games ever :thumbsup:

beautiful. this is so much more than just mercilessly shooting innocents like i first thought. this is its own experience and it's extremely different from other Postal games. i originally played this just to be done with it and move on to Postal 2, but this is genuinely its own thing. it's pretty good. there's some thing i don't like about it like the 'Super POSTAL' expansion and how sometimes it doesn't have the best controls (e.g. my mouse sometimes just disappears behind an object for SOME reason and i have to pause a bit and look for it. ruins the pacing). the gameplay is extremely enjoyable at times. the people who wrote this game's story are brilliant and definitely know how to write, that's for sure. i love The Postal Dude. he gets very funny at times, and makes me remember that this game was made by actual people who poured their time, love and effort into it. anyways, enough about me yapping. go play this one. it's free on Steam!

This game is incredibly malicious and pretty deranged. Everything from the opening slides that show the postal guys diary and how they betray his mindset is very fascinating.

But it's a shame though that during gameplay they don't reinforce this darker tone outside of the act of killing people, cutscenes, those opening level slides and THAT final level. Weirdly the voice lines and how the world is portrayed, it feels like postal 2 level goofiness. Which is a weird juxtaposition.

I kind of just get the vibe that running with scissors just wanted to make postal 2 but slapped on this edginess and cruel nature but decided not to go all the way and not explore these deeper themes of insanity and malicious violence.

postal is not a fun game. the subject matter itself is obviously enough to put most people off but even in it's actual gameplay it is repetitive, unsatisfying, janky, and at times simply frustrating. for me, it's hard to write this off as completely unintentional. unlike the subsequent and much more famous postal 2, this game takes it's premise of unmotivated mass murder completely at face value, presenting itself as a descent into madness not unlike a nine inch nails album or a von trier film with some pitch black humor thrown in not to entertain the audience but instead to make them even more uncomfortable with the actions they are committing. the inter level artwork of twisted bodies and demonic faces mixed with the dilapidated and dirty look of the gameworld gives everything this really disgusting feeling, a noxious vibe that i think gives this game the "survival horror" tag more than anything in the actual gameplay. the game's ending also gives it the real thematic gutpunch that level after level of senseless violence really needs, positing "going postal" as a reaction to the alienation and brutality at the heart of american society. it's not exactly a subtle, deep, or new idea, but it was an idea i wasn't expecting this game to try to pull off and i think it does so quite admirably. it's not a game that i would say i enjoyed or had fun with, but it's a game i respect for pushing itself so far so early in the medium's life, and being just so brazen in its own depravity.

full disclosure, the game crashed on me during the very last level and i lost all my progress so i just watched the ending on youtube lmao

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4,5/10 - Length
4,0/10 - Enjoyment
7,0/10 - Perfomance/Bugs
6,0/10 - Story/Experience
4,5/10 - Gameplay

Score = 5,2/10