Genre ActionReleased Nov 2, 2012

POSTAL 2

Developed and published by Running With Scissors
Estimated lifetime revenue
$7.37M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$5.16M
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
1.41M
≈ 10 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 138,838 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
138,838
Overwhelmingly Positive97% positive
Playing now
289
30-day peak 635 · low 289
New reviews, last 30 days
+1,015
≈ 34 a day since Sep 14

History

Sep 14 – Oct 14

138.9K138.5K138.1K137.7K
Sep 14Sep 29Oct 14

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

Action →

Against the 120 most-reviewed Action games on Steam

Outearns 19% of them — in the bottom quarter of the group.

Median
$59.63M
352,132 reviews
Top 10% start at
$203.80M
This game
$7.37M
6th pct. by reviews

The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.

About

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
Genre
Action
Released
Nov 2, 2012
Steam app ID
223470
Data updated
Oct 14, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.