How many copies has POSTAL 2 sold?

indielist estimates POSTAL 2 has sold between 5,920,284 and 13,813,996 units (median 9,867,140), derived from its 116,084 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published POSTAL 2?

POSTAL 2 was published by Running With Scissors, developed by Running With Scissors. See Running With Scissors's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does POSTAL 2 have on Steam?

POSTAL 2 has 116,084 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.

Is POSTAL 2 worth playing?

Steam players rate POSTAL 2 97% positive across 116,084 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

POSTAL 2

Nov 2, 2012 Action $9.99

Developer Running With Scissors Publisher Running With Scissors

Profile updated Jun 2026

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.

POSTAL 2 is a 2012 Action game developed by Running With Scissors and published by Running With Scissors. On Steam it has gathered 116,084 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 5.9 million to 13.8 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

116,084

Positive

97%

Steam appid

223470

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

354

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-28 05:40 UTC · 24h peak 655

Sales estimate

v1.0

5.9M to 13.8M

units (median: 9.9M)

≈ $33.8M to $78.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

5.9M median 13.8M

+ How is this calculated?

116,084 reviews × NB(85) = 9,867,140 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2012	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_97%	+10
final NB	85

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for POSTAL 2 at roughly 5.9 million to 13.8 million copies, with a median around 9.9 million, derived from its 116,084 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $56.3M 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

50 observed days · window low $0.99

Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $0.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $0.99 on 2026-06-03.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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Humble Store

$9.99 Buy
GOG.com

$9.99 Buy
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Platforms

linuxwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has POSTAL 2 sold?: indielist estimates POSTAL 2 has sold between 5,920,284 and 13,813,996 units (median 9,867,140), derived from its 116,084 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.
Who published POSTAL 2?: POSTAL 2 was published by Running With Scissors, developed by Running With Scissors. See Running With Scissors's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was POSTAL 2 released?: POSTAL 2 was released in 2012.
How many reviews does POSTAL 2 have on Steam?: POSTAL 2 has 116,084 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Is POSTAL 2 worth playing?: Steam players rate POSTAL 2 97% positive across 116,084 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like POSTAL 2 can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Serious Sam 4, Scrap Mechanic, BONEWORKS, Paint the Town Red, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.