Postal

About

Postal is a chaotic third person shooter where you retaliate against a desert town after losing your home. You roam 17 levels from neighborhoods to military bases using everything from thrown cars to explosive paint cans. The game balances moments of planned attacks with pure wanton destruction letting you choose between careful tactics or just blowing things up. The 27 achievements include a 6% unlock rate for the "Sissy" trophy reflecting the game's darkly humorous challenge curve. Originally released in 1997 it runs on modern PC Mac and Linux systems with a surprise Dreamcast version. Players often note the absurdity of using a lawn chair as a weapon or setting buildings on fire with fireworks. Over 18% of owners have unlocked achievements on average suggesting the game rewards both creativity and persistence.

Storyline

POSTAL casts the user as a nameless surrogate character that is brought to the breaking point when his newly purchased home in the small, desert community of Paradise, Arizona is repossessed due to a trivial error in the escrow filing. However, when he soon comes to believe that the repossession is merely the tip of a demonic conspiracy intended to dominate humanity, he truly goes "postal."