POSTAL 4: No Regerts

Another piece of shit

It's a good game.
Only complaint is that trying to imply Postal 1 Dude is Dude Sr just doesn't work at all.
Other than that I'd recommend it to people who enjoyed p2 and paradise lost.

need me some MikeJaret's bidet

Really disappointing game. It feels very boring and soulless compared to Postal 2. It isn't as bad as Postal 3, but that isn't saying much. I really just didn't feel like playing this game at all and I would have rather played Postal 2 again. I'm convinced Postal 2 is a sort of lighting captured in a bottle game that will never be fully replicated again. This game is also pretty rough around the edges with weird performances drops even 2 years after release. The AI are also really bad especially for a game released in 2022. I also experienced a glitch where I could not progress in the story at all. Pretty lame honestly and I wouldn't recommend you buy this unless you're a hardcore Postal fan. The only good thing about this game is that the guns look and sound cool.

just buy postal 2 instead.

this is so buggy i love it
perfect sequel for second part

Is it truly a Postal game if the references aren't immediately dated?

Devs said multiply was coming... Lies.

There are things that are good about this, and there are a lot of things to hate about it.

The fact that they've brought back all the voice actors and got a new one (Duke Nukem 'imself) AND the guy from the movie is just awesome!
The commitment of the devs to update the game and make it good, is commendable.

But.... this is janky, buggy, and overall - the game plays - weird. It's not the same as Postal 2, which was janky and weird, this is more like - a jank jank.
It is harder (and easier in some ways) than Postal 2. Some areas make no sense, the enemies continue to spawn over and over in certain areas making the progression feel like a chore rather than adventure, some weapons do so little damage you might as well kick the enemy instead... there's a lot.

Despite it all, the game is playable. Is it finishable? Well, depends on how lucky you are with the bugs. I had a bug in previous updates that prevented me from progressing completely, had to restart. A few times actually. I didn't have a problem this time however, but I don't have the time to come back to it and try finishing it. I heard there's a special thing that happens at the end, depending which Dude you pick, so I really wanna see it.

In any case, if you like Postal, or RWS, you - probably could buy this game, as IT IS Postal, however unpolished and it feels - more like it's still in EA rather than a fully realised game (but this could be credited to many factors, one of which would be financial). So if you want them to work on the game, or more postal games, buying this would probably help them a bit.
It isn't Postal 2 however, so if you expect Postal 2, this isn't it. But it isn't as bad as Postal 3, you at least have an open world. It's also built on Unreal Engine so it has that.... Unreal Engine "charm" to it (looks generic AF with lots of post-processing) which makes many people go "this is good graphics" (I'm tired of pretending UE games look good just because its UE, or that they are optimised).

Depending on your expectations and - how janky you like it, you'll either have a fun time, or you'll regert ever buying this and quickly refund it.

I'd to give this a side ways thumb review if I could. It's a thumbs up and not down because the devs are still committed to updating and improving the game. It's far improved from it's launch but still need quite a bit of work. If you are a Postal fan get the game as there is still fun here. If you are new to the series I'd probably go with Postal 2 before this one.

The good:
The guns are amazing from the feel to the sound to the animations. The game play really carries a lot of this game for me. Whoever was in charge of the guns give them a promotion.
I like Edenson. It's fun to explore and looks nice.
Postal dude is still great and being to pick between all three voices is awesome.
Co-op is coming at some point.

The not good:
Performance is still not good. I crashed several times with pretty big frame drops and for some reason stairs just don't work I had to jump up them. Also, load times between areas can get pretty long.
The game just isn't very funny. I wasn't expecting Postal 2 and there are some good jokes and gags but overall it feels like it's safe edgy comedy unless you think bidets are peak comedy.
Edenson is too big and still too empty to really enjoy getting around. There is fast travel, mobility scooters and karts but that only does so much. A lot of places feel like they are close to being realized but aren't there.
A lot of the missions just aren't that fun (being a cat and the VR mission) or interesting but that might be part of the point since it is a Postal game. Even the missions that are enjoyable don't really stand out.

Not as fun as Postal 2, but it's still fun.

Its kinda like postal 3 with a bit of postal 2 on the side but waaay better.

This game is ass
Just an overall downgrade and worse than any previous game

The postal franchise (when made directly from RWS) never fails to make a masterpiece B)

my computer can't handle it all the time because it kept saying "out of video memory" and allat

TL;DR - POSTAL 2 but modernised, and please get this on sale with the full series bundle (because you get POSTAL 2 and POSTAL: BRAIN DAMAGED. Not saying this game is entirely bad.)

With that aside, this is a more modern take on POSTAL 2 and I felt a bit disoriented by that. Why? Pissing is now C because R is now reload, holstering is now V because F is use selected inventory item and holding V is dropping your weapon, but fortunately Q is still kick. So take this with a grain of salt if you don't care about the control scheme change.

It's still POSTAL 2 humour. Just that it pokes fun at modern issues like "a certain pandemic in 2020" and the fact that you probably wiped out an entire prison on Monday, leaving it with no prisoners. Or that there's a whole crypto-bank you can rob. Nevertheless! The jokes are a hit or miss, but that's fine. The gun play could use some polishing, but this is still a work in progress game so I respect that they need time to fix and make everything pretty.

So get this on sale. I'm not saying this game is bad, it's just that it's janky to the point that the game can unpredictably become not enjoyable. At least RWS is listening to their customers (unlike other devs... cough cough).

Fun game. A True Seagull to Postal 2.

Mid with stale memes. I have a lot more hours in it elsewhere, but if you can look past it the game is okay. Its not Postal 3 bad, and its not Postal 2 good. Its just... here.

If you can get it on a deep sale it may be worth. I have the whole collection including Postal 3 and thats about all this is worth to me personally. With there was a "meh" option, but I understand why there isnt.

Postal 2 is one of my favorite games.
I don't know what I expected from 4, but it just felt incredibly empty and boring.
Just constant running for the most part. The missions feel boring and unsatisfying.
I finished the last day with cheats because I couldn't bother really.
Trying to spice it up yourself by doing random shit just felt boring too.
I feel sad saying these things just because I love Postal 2 so much,
but I gotta be honest. It wasn't worth my time or money.
And i'm def a low-life loser so that says a lot, to me.
"Spoiler" for missions:
The cult camp in the mountains, and Kunny Island. What even was that.
I felt excited when going there thinking it would spice things up,
But it's just empty and nothing to do, see or grab.
Just some ugly mountain guys walking around, empty woods.
And in Kunny Island the same, empty and nothing to do. Get bugged on a ride maybe.
Actually this goes for any mission, sadly.
I still gotta say I love Running With Scissors in general though, seem like wonderful people.
This just wasn't it.

shit sucks
postal 3 better

Running with scissors has always been one of my favorite development teams, and that's due to their commitment to listening to their fans and delivering when it comes to showing love to their I.P.s and continuing to make them better. I played Postal 2 for the first time back in 2006, and when i got another PC a year and some change ago after not having one for nearly a decade some of the first games i downloaded were postal 2 and 4. At this point ive put quite a few hours in to both of these games, and at this point i can say I am happy with what they have for Postal 4 so far. Despite the crashes and janke it a solid game, with a lot of replay value. Being able to play as all the Postal Dudes was a nice touch, the controls could use a touch of work such as a toggle run option. All in all I cant wait for multiplayer, and the true final product this game is gonna be.

My score so far 7.8 outta 10
with the future updates that will probably changes. Definitely recommend

I wanna like this game so badly, but as much as it pains me to say so, it's a poorly optimized buggy mess. Reloading saves probably took 30% of my playtime, as, sometimes, loading the recent one after death just ends up with progress getting blocked (i.e. if you reload the save at the Dam errand, the doors will be locked, and you will be unable to plug the leaks). There's some other unpleasant glitches, but I'm a postal fanboy and I don't think I could handle reminding myself of all the ones that occurred during my playthrough. I get it that it's supposed to be more or less a sh!tp0st game, but I found it difficult to enjoy my experience due to the game feeling like its development process was speedran. =(

I Regret Everything

I think this game is honestly really fun its not shit at all, all the haters just never heard the word have fun so they decided to not have fun with this game like just get gud and play the game more like true postal patriots

npc try to run over my nuts

Jesus christ Running With Scissors fell off. This game is complete garbage and is an insult to this franchise. You guys managed to make another game just as bad as Postal 3, congratulations!
Please gives this franchise to an other studio so we can get actual good games like Postal: Brain Damaged

i like it but ever since the mew update it wont start without crashing

While I have enjoyed the game so far I simply cannot recommend it as it is far too buggy and crashes too often to be a worthwhile experience, especially at the over $50 asking price. I bought it on sale and I feel scammed to a certain extent as it will have random frame drops, randomly stop saving and delete my existing save file and crash. I know the running with scissors team are working to fix these issues and will update my review when those bugs I have mentions have been fixed. In terms of actual gameplay, the graphics are good in most areas, like environments, weapon animations and the models of the postal dude and certain other characters, but lots of the civilians look too out of place and ugly in a bad way. The highlights and the movement, shooting, gore physics and In my opinion the gameplay are great, but this may only be the first day as I have only been able to load into Tuesday for about 3 minutes before my game crashed and deleted my save files. In short; not optimised well enough and buggy for now, but has potential and will probably get better over time. (also make melee weapons stronger and make it easier to dismember with them so they actually feel good to use like the guns)

It's like a sequel to postal 2 with an enchanced combat system overhaul to the postal 2 combat system overall play it

once you get over the bugs and reach half way, you will find yourself in the community wishing you never joined and then relize it was not worth the money.

A good game with some flaws, the humor may not be for everyone but pissing on someone into beating them with a shovel will always be funny.

Keep on improving the game RWS.

actually, i do have some regerts... a lot in fact. i bought this game when it started out in early access in 2019 i guess. it sucked then so i refunded it. i just bought it again and it sucks still! dunno what happened but you seem to be able to cut off less limbs than in postal 2 and it runs worse. i want to make a quippy joke about developer incompetency but i'll just say this is postal 3 2

It´s still an unplayable piece of dogshit, in every way inferior to Postal 2, but I love RWS.

I really like this game, I've played postal 2 for so many hours that I was just hankering for new postal content. I'm surprised that even though it follows the same formula as postal 2, it doesn't feel copy and paste-y. I know that this game is still being worked on to get all the crap out, but my main thing that I don't like all that much about the game is that it's a little unoptimized. I know I don't have one of the best computers out there for current time computers so I don't expect it to run completely smoothly, but jesus christ, it takes so long to load into a new area on the map. I also had to turn off cel shading and had to turn down anti aliasing just a bit because my frame rate would drop to horrible levels occasionally. Do I recommend this game? Yes, but to those that have a bit better of a computer (I feel like RWS should change their system requirements and recommended because I definitely meet those and sometimes my computer still struggles)

Broken jankfest.

Map freezes up constantly. Toggle crouch option has to be ticked again every time game is opened. Ear-splitting crash sound sometimes when the scooter moves. Devs are great about pushing updates over the years, but they're not actually fixing some long time bugs. Medium load times to open the game, then more on various parts of the game world. Very unclear sometimes what the current objective is. Too many missions are designed to take your guns and gear away from you. You have to scroll through a whole bunch of nonsense items just to get back to healing items. Edgy humor is not really even funny, just stale.

It's like Saint's Row but sweatier, buggier, and more pretentious.

you can petition for bidets while smoking rock and shooting people. its like gta if it was made by lunatics

This game is quite fun, It's gameplay is enjoyable but I wouldn't get this unless you love postal. The game runs horrifically and constantly drops performance, even on a 4080 TI, there are countless bugs still and just generally some things don't feel fully finished. I hope this game can come back hard, Also I wish mods worked on this, I made a few but I cannot for the life of me get them to work like in any other Unreal game

even with a 3060 gpu and running everything at the lowest possible settings the game only gets 14-17 fps. cant even make it throught the damn prison mission at the fucking beginning.....

Running with Scissors, instead of stuffing more side missions and clothing swaps how about OPTIMIZING THIS PILE OF BLOATWARE!!!! you jackoffs have been riding the coatails of postal 2 for 2 decades, get your shit together......