Recently, a “friend” of mine recommended a game by the name Postal Redux. I had mentioned that I was in the market for an RPG, ideally one with live action mechanics. That led me down the rabbit hole of today’s subject.

Postal Redux is a remade version of a 1997 hit. This may be somewhat dated, but does anyone remember when Grand Theft Auto, South Park and Call of Duty were supposedly creating school shooters and permeating society? Well, Postal Redux is actually what those people were talking about. I’d go on, but let’s save it for the body of the review. Just know that this is gonna be a spicy one.

Ever have some twisted, violent, delusional fantasy?

Postal Redux is all about spawning the player in some small city, giving them an arsenal of military weaponry, then telling them to just go shoot up an entire town. You will kill children, you will kill the homeless, the disabled, men, women, police officers, fire fighters, if he or she breathes, the game expects you to kill it, burn it and/or blow it up. If you actually enjoy Postal Redux, it may be too late for therapy to save you.

The liners…

This game came out in 1997, so the knock off Duke Nukem dialogue is at least within some kind of a context and drew some inspiration. That said, in this scenario, the liners come off as cheesy and really, really cringey. It doesn’t help that they’re often supplemented by someone crying out in agony while they’re being very graphically murdered.

Again, who enjoys this type of game?

It needs to be iterated, ad nauseum, that this is not like a third person Call of Duty game. COD, to some degree, takes itself seriously, far moreso than this game. When you shoot people in COD, at least there’s a reason that isn’t fulfilling some super cringey desire to torture the hell out of random people.

This game is nauseatingly cringe. More objectively speaking, this game is extremely niche. The niche it plays to is so hyper specific, that I am actually repulsed by the thought of someone genuinely enjoying this game. If you have a friend who frequents the Postal franchise, please ensure they don’t have access to firearms in real life. They may genuinely become the face of the next tragedy.

This is actually one of the more difficult games to objectively rank. So I’m going to rank it in two separate ways. The first method of ranking is: is the game good, does it faithfully play to its niche and is it well structured without any serious bugs? Yes to all of the above, so… I guess I’ll give it a C? As for the second method of ranking: is the game a good, fun time that I would recommend to people likely to read today’s review? Absolutely not. It gets an F in that regard, but not just “F” for failure- “F” for FBI as in, you should appear on an FBI watchlist if you play this game for any extended period of time and actually enjoy it.