Postal (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Running with Scissors |
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| Director(s) | Mike Riedel |
| Producer(s) | Vince Desi |
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| Composer(s) | Christian Salyer |
| Series | Postal |
| Platform(s) | Mac OS, Windows, Linux, Android, Dreamcast |
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| Genre(s) | Shoot 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Postal is a 1997 isometric top-down shooter video game developed by Running with Scissors and published by Ripcord Games. Players assume the role of the Postal Dude, a man who commits mass murder throughout the fictional town of Paradise, Arizona to cure what he believes to be a "hate plague" released by the United States Air Force.
A March 2001 re-release of the game, called Postal Plus, included a "Special Delivery" add-on. A sequel to the game, Postal 2, was released in 2003. Two additional sequels, Postal III and Postal 4: No Regerts, were released in 2011 and 2022, respectively. German film director Uwe Boll bought the movie rights for the series and produced a film of the same name. A remake of the game, Postal Redux, was released for Microsoft Windows on May 20, 2016, and was later released for the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch digital stores. At the end of 2016, the game's source code was released under the GNU GPL-2.0-only. At the end of 2019, Running with Scissors released the game as freeware.