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You can no longer play Postal 3 on Steam or anywhere else. The reason is that the server that authenticates every entry in Postal 3, whether the player wants to play online or not, has gone haywire. Without this server, no one can play Postal 3, which resulted in the game being removed from Steam. And the developer of Postal Running With Scissors loves it.
“Due to DRM issues with Postal 3 and the overall poor quality of the game itself, the game is no longer officially sold on Steam,” Running With Scissors tweeted. “We didn’t have control over the page, so we couldn’t make it free before the DRM problems started. At least people won’t buy this junk anymore!”
For those wondering why a developer would write nasty things about their game, it’s because Running With Scissors didn’t technically make Postal 3. They outsourced development to Russian publisher Akella, who then hired Trashmasters to work on it. And Trashmasters lived up to its name by turning Postal 3 into complete trash, from a bad script to almost constant crashes. It was so bad that Postal 3 has a rating of just 24 on Metacritic and one of the worst ratings of any game on Steam.
Following the release of Postal 3, Running With Scissors removed the game from their online store and encouraged fans to buy previous games instead. And to make sure that a third game never really existed, in Postal 2: Paradise Lost (a Postal 2 expansion released in 2015), they twisted the Postal 3 storyline to be the result of an 11-year coma caused by Dude of Postal driving his car into the stop sign. Postal 4, released in April, calls itself a true sequel to Postal 2 and claims that “there is no third game”.
Since there is no legal way to play Postal 3, Running With Scissors has advised fans to pirate the game if they really want to try it. But if a developer tells you not to play his game, that’s a sure sign you should listen.
