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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 8.7 hrs on record (6.0 hrs at review time)
Posted: Mar 24 @ 8:21am

A genuine but disappointing effort at the series. Monday starts okay but the game quickly falls apart after.

It's immediately evident that the game is a dull, empty, and lifeless "sandbox", a pity shell of its former self. NPCs are somehow even worse to interact with than in Postal 2. The environments are half-baked, lifeless empty, scattered to create an illusion of a big world, and have 0 interactions to them. Literally a dozen of props can be glued to the ground with no use or even physics to them. The proportion/scaling issues are ridiculous - some items are made for giants, and some doorways or stairwells you can't even fit in without crouching. The environmental storytelling is dull and already outdated - the dated covid jokes, the sex toys near beds (very funny, for the first dozen of times, harhar), and then there is one near every bed in every apartment.

There is no incentive to exploration apart from collectibles.

There is zero novelty to the new engine apart from bugs, and scattering the embarrassingly low amount of "interest points" across empty tunnels in a weak attempt to make the world feel bigger - it is not. "Interest points" are just not interesting - like you deliberately mark an area as interesting, and then there's nothing there.

The sound is a buggy mess of overlapping and not-level matched imports.

The performance is atrocious and the game doesn't even look much better that Postal 2, which came out 20 years ago.

I can't believe this is a full release, it's half the game at most. And the multiplayer - where is it? Postal 2 had it and it was awesome. Postal 4 is a bad attempt at making the same game again, 20 years too late. This literally could've been a DLC for the second game. The only redeeming quality is having Rick Hunter as Postal dude again. That's it.

Postal 4 is ALL Regerts.

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