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POSTAL Redux is a high definition remake of the classic dark and surreal twin-stick isometric shooter. Take control of The POSTAL Dude as he fights to survive in a world gone mad with violence.
POSTAL Redux is a online co-op, multiplayer and singleplayer game
developed and published by Running With Scissors.
Released on May 20th 2016 is available on Windows and Linux
in 2 languages: English and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 6,765 reviews of which 6,216 were positive and 549 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 8.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.00€ on Instant Gaming.
The Steam community has classified POSTAL Redux into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 10
- Processor: 2.0 GHz dual core processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX10 compatible graphics card w/ dedicated 512MB RAM
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires a 64 bit operating system
Linux
- OS: SteamOS and Ubuntu 16.04+
- Processor: 2.0 GHz dual core processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Graphics card w/ dedicated 512MB RAM
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires a 64 bit operating system
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Postal Redux is proof that not every remake needs to exist. ...but sometimes it’s made just to remind us that madness can now be played in HD. Reimagining the chaos of the first Postal sounded like a good idea... until you realise you're stuck in an old story with new paint. Sure, the graphics are better, but the heart of it? Still mad. Still dangerous. The gameplay is simple, walk, shoot, die, try again. Everything around you burns, screams, and runs in circles, and that’s half the fun. The game still smells like fire and gun oil, even if the pixels are shinier now. You play as a silent man who looks like he’s seen too many bad days. He talks little, but when he does, it’s something like "Only my weapon understands me..." . And honestly, after five minutes in the game, you’ll believe him. The music stays heavy, like a bad feeling before something explodes. And everyone is your enemy. People on the street, police, even a school marching band, it doesn’t matter. If it moves, it’s a target. It’s so mad, it starts to feel clever. In the end, Postal Redux is short, rough, and has no respect for anything, and maybe that’s why it’s fun. It’s the kind of game that makes you laugh, then makes you question why you’re laughing. A remake nobody really needed, but one you might enjoy… if you don’t mind feeling a little bit wrong inside.
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Least insane American simulator Also, going from FFX / X-2 into this was a hilariously jarring form a whiplash
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The Earth is hungry. Its heart throbs and demands cleansing. The Earth is also thirsty.
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Back in the 90s, when everything was first becoming "edgy", things like snot, shit, piss, fucking, pessimism, narcissism, depression, and dead baby jokes were stabbing America's puritanical heart and making the conservative media clutch their pearls, it took a VERY special something in order to stand out from all the muck and slime. Doom sent the white protestants running to God for some sort of answer for America's spiraling degeneracy. First grunge and now violence in my video games? What else could come along and further send the youth of America into the toilet? In 1997, Postal sludged its way out of its fetid sewers and, without warning, tracked its muck all over the collective unconsciousness. With every bullet wedging into each muscle fiber, each sinew, each brain wrinkle, the cracks of the psyche begins growing and growing. From little, barely perceptible specks, hardly worth noting into canyon wide gashes with root-like complexity. The POSTAL dude carved his way into the forefront of every teen and young adult's mind. Dude didn't even have that many lines in the original, a couple of off-color comments here and there, his tone of voice, nothing too crazy. What stuck with players, aside from the wanton mass murdering, is the intermissions, the atmosphere, the dingey, dirty, depraved nature of it all. After the rush of the slaughter has subside, the player is then greeted with Throbbing Gristle and Nurse with Wound soundscapes blasting in your ear. Every sour note screeches the Devil's Litany, every drum beat is a funeral blow. It is the soundtrack to the cursed verses of Baudelaire. On the screen is Postal Dude's manic scrawls and scratches. Fervent mad displays of psychosis and desperate pleas of sanity splatter themselves across the computer screen. Distorted screams and hushed voices repeat themselves into infinity, each second of it marches ever so closer to resembling an exorcism. A bedlam of distortion and nightmares. Then just like that, that millisecond of unsustainable madness disappears into dull nothing as Postal Dude racks another shell into his shotgun, each step of his boots onto the asphalt below is damnation in a beat. Unbeknownst to any civilian going about their daily goings-on, Hell has walked into town. The choir sings in .44, the epileptic machine gun are spasmatic rhythms. The crackling of burned flesh and ash white bones are polyphonic. The hollow hymns of the dying damned become the music to which the Earth decays to. Soaring high notes of the gored. Frenetic and traumatized trills of the auto-shotgun ring out into the urban landscape as you mow down cop after cop, swat after swat, man after man, flesh into nothing. Solemn. Hallucinatory. Outrage. Postal Dude plays some mean jams, man. The lads over at Running with Scissors sure know how to treat their baby with care and love. Sure, an argument can be made that a remake is unnecessary when the original is right there, some even fear that the remake will outmode the original, what with all the quality of life changes that a remake usually entails. Lemme tell yah, I played both, I enjoyed both. They should be treated as different games (the grime of the original is a bit better though). What you should expect from this is a good remake of a pretty good isometric shooter about killing your neighbors and fellow man in order to SAVE them from themselves. Simple as. I am a bit disappointed that I got too mad and couldn't get all the achievements, maybe later in the future. Fuck some of those hitboxes when I'm firing off the rockets though
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Gameplay-wise, it's a step up from the OG Postal. It's a little easier to play on keyboards/mouse than the OG version. Another thing to point out, Rick Hunter deserves his flowers in this one. Man's redone all his lines for this remake, and he sounds colder, more natural, more menacing than before. Btw, If you ever wanna play another music beside the soundtrack (a solid soundtrack btw), play this game to Slayer's Reign In Blood in its entirety. You'll be surprised how the SMG matches Lombardo's bass drums.
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Frequently Asked Questions
POSTAL Redux is currently priced at 8.79€ on Steam.
POSTAL Redux is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 8.79€ on Steam.
POSTAL Redux received 6,216 positive votes out of a total of 6,765 achieving a rating of 8.89.
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POSTAL Redux was developed and published by Running With Scissors.
POSTAL Redux is playable and fully supported on Windows.
POSTAL Redux is not playable on MacOS.
POSTAL Redux is playable and fully supported on Linux.
POSTAL Redux offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
POSTAL Redux offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
There is a DLC available for POSTAL Redux. Explore additional content available for POSTAL Redux on Steam.
POSTAL Redux does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
POSTAL Redux does not support Steam Remote Play.
POSTAL Redux is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for POSTAL Redux.
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Online players
7
Developer
Running With Scissors
Publisher
Running With Scissors
Release
20 May 2016
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