Postal: Redux
Postal: Redux is a remake of the 1997 game Postal. It keeps the original shooting gameplay and features all original levels remastered in HD, plus a brand-new level. Updates also included the Postal: Special…
Postal: Redux is an indie developed by Running With Scissors, released 20 May 2016 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Linux. It currently starts at $0.89 at Fanatical. The main story takes about 3 hrs to finish.
What Postal: Redux is
Postal: Redux is an indie game developed by Running With Scissors and released in 2016. It was published by MD Games. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Postal: Redux is a remake of the 1997 game Postal. It keeps the original shooting gameplay and features all original levels remastered in HD, plus a brand-new level. Updates also included the Postal: Special Delivery add-on levels, and the Tokyo and Osaka levels, which were exclusive of the Japanese release of the original game. The game also includes a revolver, along with all the original weapons. The main objective of each level is still killing a certain number of hostile enemies to advance to the next stage. Co-op and deathmatch plays were also added. The game also has an rampage mode, in which the player must score points by killing hostiles and NPCs in a short period using different…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 25 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Postal: Redux holds a critic score of 59 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 9 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $0.89, that works out to about $0.30 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz dual core processor, 4 GB RAM and DirectX10 compatible graphics card w/ dedicated 512MB RAM. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.89 at Fanatical, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Postal: Redux launched on 20 May 2016, within three weeks of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch and Doom. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, Doom.
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