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POSTAL 2 is a first-person, open-world action game featuring dark humor and violence. Released in 2012 by developer and publisher Running With Scissors, it has garnered 114,007 Steam reviews with a 97% positive rating. This indicates significant player engagement and positive reception for the mature-rated title.
Overview
POSTAL 2 is a 2012 Action game developed by Running With Scissors and published by Running With Scissors. On Steam it has gathered 114,324 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Running With Scissors with publisher Running With Scissors is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 5.8 million to 13.6 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, POSTAL 2 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
114,324
Positive
97%
Steam appid
223470
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.05.8M to 13.6M
units (median: 9.7M)
≈ $33.3M to $77.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2012 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for POSTAL 2 at roughly 5.8 million to 13.6 million copies, with a median around 9.7 million, derived from its 114,324 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $55.5M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $5.13Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $5.13 to $9.99, averaging $9.26 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $5.13 on 2026-05-31.
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Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Tags
ViolentDark HumorOpen WorldMatureFirst-PersonFunnyComedySandboxModdableThird PersonGoreFPSActionDark ComedySingleplayerMultiplayerShooterClassicAdventureSatire
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has POSTAL 2 sold?
- indielist estimates POSTAL 2 has sold between 5,830,524 and 13,604,556 units (median 9,717,540), derived from its 114,324 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed POSTAL 2?
- POSTAL 2 was developed by Running With Scissors and published by Running With Scissors.
- When was POSTAL 2 released?
- POSTAL 2 was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does POSTAL 2 have on Steam?
- POSTAL 2 has 114,324 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions POSTAL 2 within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Running With Scissors's other releases and Running With Scissors's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where POSTAL 2 sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same POSTAL 2 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.