POSTAL 2

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POSTAL 2

Short description

Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

Developer
Running With Scissors
Publisher
Running With Scissors
Release
Fri, Nov 02, 2012
Price
$9.99
Reviews
118,541
Positive
97%
Followers
n/a
Owners (estimated)
5M – 10M
Concurrent players
320
Genres
Action, Adventure, Indie
Features
Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Includes level editor
Tags
Violent Dark Humor Open World Mature First-Person Funny Comedy Sandbox Moddable Third Person Gore FPS Action Dark Comedy Singleplayer Multiplayer Shooter Classic Adventure Satire
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$53.3msomewhere between $50m and $94.7m · roughly 5M–9.5M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $9.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

71 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$52.4m → ~$53.3m
See data from Nov 2012 with a Plus account
Reviews 116,504 → 118,541
Concurrent players 320 → 320
Price $9.99 → $9.99
Positive reviews 97.0% → 97.0%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 462 further data points reach back to Nov 1, 2012 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $0.99 on Dec 26, 2014.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around POSTAL 2 is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Violent + Dark Humor + Open World

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with POSTAL 2. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Maneater Maneater Tripwire Interactive 14 titles 3 − Mature − First-Person − Funny + Nature + RPG + Underwater $39.99 22,210 88% Tue, May 25, 2021 $33.1m
$16.6m – $33.1m
Kindergarten Kindergarten Sean Young 7 titles +1 3 − Open World − Mature − First-Person + Gore + Pixel Graphics + Singleplayer $4.99 10,314 97% Thu, Jun 15, 2017 $2.2m
$974k – $2.4m
Postal III Postal III Trashmasters first game +1 3 − Open World − Mature − First-Person + Action + Gore + Third-Person Shooter $5.99 4,795 47% Fri, Feb 17, 2012 $1.2m
$1.1m – $2.1m
G.O.P.O.T.A G.O.P.O.T.A VD Games 16 titles +1 3 − Violent − Open World − Mature + Life Sim + Memes + Indie $29.99 1,491 82% Sat, Apr 29, 2023 $456k
$340k – $680k
Skoof Simulator Skoof Simulator PropilGames 10 titles 3 − Violent − Open World − Mature + Life Sim + Memes + Simulation $29.99 929 84% Thu, Sep 05, 2024 $61k
$29k – $74k

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