Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like Postal 2 (2026)
Every game below overlaps with Postal 2 on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition, which both open world.
- Postal 2 is tagged Violent, Dark Humor, Open World, Mature, First-Person, Funny, Comedy, Sandbox by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
Why it matched: both open world; shares 9 player tags including Third Person, Moddable and Sandbox.
Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez all have one thing in common - they live in the worst city in America. Liberty City worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition at a glance Released 2020 Studio Rockstar North Player sentiment 83% positive of 202,430 Price $19.99 Third PersonModdableSandboxShooterClassicDark HumorFunnyGore
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Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition
Why it matched: both open world; shares 9 player tags including Third Person, Moddable and Sandbox.
PLEASE NOTE: Microsoft no longer supports creating Games for Windows-LIVE accounts within Grand Theft Auto IV. You can create an account through and then log into your account in game. This standalone retail title spans three distinct stories, interwoven to create one of the most unique and engaging single-player experiences of this...
Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition at a glance Released Not recorded Studio Rockstar North Player sentiment 83% positive of 202,491 Price Not listed Third PersonModdableSandboxShooterClassicDark HumorFunnyGore
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Saints Row: Gat out of Hell
Why it matched: both open world; shares 9 player tags including Comedy, Third Person and Funny.
Join Johnny Gat & Kinzie Kensington as you tear apart Hell in a quest to save the Boss’ soul. Historical icons, old friends, older enemies, a talking gun, a full length musical number & a whole lot more shenanigans await!
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell at a glance Released 2015 Studio Deep Silver Volition Player sentiment 75% positive of 9,775 Price $3.74 ComedyThird PersonFunnyShooterSandboxDark HumorMatureGore
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Mafia III
Why it matched: both open world; shares 8 player tags including Third Person, Violent and Shooter.
After Lincoln Clay's surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and killed by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family and blazes a path of revenge through the Mafioso responsible.
Mafia III at a glance Released 2016 Studio Aspyr Player sentiment 57% positive of 64,036 Price $29.99 Third PersonViolentShooterClassicMatureSandboxGoreFPS
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Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Why it matched: both open world; shares 7 player tags including Classic, Comedy and FPS; released around the same time (2005).
You're the Stranger, a mysterious bounty hunter on a mission to bag the ultimate prize. And you need that money like no one else because there is something very wrong with your health and the only way to fix it is a very costly operation.
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath at a glance Released 2005 Studio Oddworld Inhabitants Player sentiment 87% positive of 1,817 Price $9.99 ClassicComedyFPSThird PersonViolentShooterFirst-Person
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Destroy All Humans!
Why it matched: both open world; shares 8 player tags including Funny, Comedy and Third Person.
The cult-classic returns! Terrorize the people of 1950's Earth in the role of the evil alien Crypto-137. Harvest their DNA and bring down the US government in the faithful remake of the legendary alien invasion action adventure. Annihilate puny humans using an assortment of alien weaponry and psychic abilities.
Destroy All Humans! at a glance Released 2020 Studio Black Forest Games Player sentiment 92% positive of 11,497 Price $29.99 FunnyComedyThird PersonGoreDark HumorSandboxClassicViolent
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Bully: Scholarship Edition
Why it matched: both open world; shares 8 player tags including Third Person, Comedy and Funny.
Bully tells the story of mischievous 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins as he goes through the hilarity and awkwardness of adolescence. Beat the jocks at dodge ball, play pranks on the preppies, save the nerds, kiss the girl and navigate the social hierarchy in the worst school around.
Bully: Scholarship Edition at a glance Released 2008 Studio Rockstar New England Player sentiment 84% positive of 41,932 Price $14.99 Third PersonComedyFunnyClassicDark HumorSandboxSatireMature
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Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
Why it matched: both open world; shares 8 player tags including Mature, Third Person and Shooter.
Experience entertainment blockbusters Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online — now upgraded for a new generation with stunning visuals, faster loading, 3D audio, and more, plus exclusive content for GTA Online players.
Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced at a glance Released 2025 Studio Rockstar North Player sentiment 83% positive of 219,023 Price $19.79 MatureThird PersonShooterFirst-PersonSandboxComedyFunnyModdable
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Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered
Why it matched: both open world; shares 8 player tags including FPS, Classic and Shooter.
The genre-defining military sim that began as Operation Flashpoint (2001), now a modernized, 64-bit, cross-platform build for Windows and Linux, with its engine released as open source. Over 2 million copies sold. The Cold War battlefield of Everon and Nogova, remastered for today's hardware.
Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered at a glance Released 2011 Studio Bohemia Interactive Player sentiment 80% positive of 6,445 Price $4.99 FPSClassicShooterFirst-PersonSandboxModdableThird PersonGore
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Just Cause 4 Reloaded
Why it matched: both open world; shares 8 player tags including Sandbox, Shooter and Violent.
Rogue agent Rico Rodriguez journeys to Solis, a huge South American world home of conflict, oppression and extreme weather conditions. Strap into your wingsuit, equip your fully customizable grappling hook, and get ready to bring the thunder!
Just Cause 4 Reloaded at a glance Released 2018 Studio Avalanche Studios Player sentiment 62% positive of 32,247 Price Not listed SandboxShooterViolentFunnyGoreThird PersonFPSComedy
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Mafia III: Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both open world; shares 8 player tags including Third Person, Violent and Shooter.
After Lincoln Clay's surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and killed by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family and blazes a path of revenge through the Mafioso responsible.
Mafia III: Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2020 Studio Hangar 13 Player sentiment 57% positive of 64,063 Price $29.99 Third PersonViolentShooterClassicMatureSandboxGoreFPS
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Duke Nukem Forever
Why it matched: shares 9 player tags including FPS, Shooter and Comedy.
The King arrives with an arsenal of over-the-top weapons, giant explosions and pure unadulterated fun!
Duke Nukem Forever at a glance Released 2011 Studio Gearbox Software Player sentiment 69% positive of 11,615 Price $19.99 FPSShooterComedyFirst-PersonMatureFunnyGoreDark Humor
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Just Cause 2
Why it matched: both open world; shares 7 player tags including Sandbox, Third Person and Shooter.
Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.
Just Cause 2 at a glance Released 2010 Studio Avalanche Studios Player sentiment 91% positive of 51,583 Price $14.99 SandboxThird PersonShooterFunnyModdableComedyFPS
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Borderlands Game of the Year
Why it matched: both open world; shares 7 player tags including FPS, Shooter and First-Person.
Get ready for the mind blowing insanity! Play as one of four trigger-happy mercenaries and take out everything that stands in your way! With its addictive action, frantic first-person shooter combat, massive arsenal of weaponry, RPG elements and four-player co-op, Borderlands is a breakthrough experience that challenges all the...
Borderlands Game of the Year at a glance Released 2023 Studio Gearbox Software Player sentiment 90% positive of 31,877 Price $29.99 FPSShooterFirst-PersonComedyFunnyDark HumorGore
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Hitman: Contracts
Why it matched: both open world; shares 7 player tags including Third Person, Classic and Shooter.
Enter the world of a HITMAN - a world of crime, sin and greed. Delve into the mind of Agent 47 and encounter his greatest adversaries, completing the work that made him so brutally efficient and shaped him as an assassin. Eliminate your targets by any means necessary. There are no rules... only the contract, signed in blood.
Hitman: Contracts at a glance Released 2014 Studio Io-Interactive A/S Player sentiment 87% positive of 3,658 Price $8.99 Third PersonClassicShooterFirst-PersonSandboxGoreViolent
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Gotham City Impostors Free to Play
Why it matched: both open world; shares 7 player tags including FPS, Shooter and Funny.
Gotham City Impostors is now Free to Play! Join the Batman "helpers" or junior Jokerz in the streets of Gotham full of bullets, bodies, and bear traps.
Gotham City Impostors Free to Play at a glance Released 2012 Studio Monolith Productions, Inc. Player sentiment 86% positive of 12,071 Price Not listed FPSShooterFunnyFirst-PersonComedyGoreSandbox
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Dino D-Day
Why it matched: both open world; shares 7 player tags including FPS, Shooter and First-Person.
Frantic, multiplayer action involving Nazis and dinosaurs! What are you waiting for? This is World War II as it should have been!
Dino D-Day at a glance Released 2011 Studio 800 North and Digital Ranch Player sentiment 84% positive of 15,117 Price $9.99 FPSShooterFirst-PersonComedyFunnyThird PersonGore
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Serious Sam 4
Why it matched: both open world; shares 7 player tags including Gore, FPS and Shooter.
Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.
Serious Sam 4 at a glance Released 2020 Studio Croteam Player sentiment 83% positive of 17,689 Price $39.99 GoreFPSShooterViolentComedyFirst-PersonClassic
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Borderlands
Why it matched: shares 8 player tags including FPS, Shooter and First-Person.
Discover the original co-op shooter-looter, crammed with new enhancements! As one of 4 trigger-happy mercenaries with RPG progression, equip bazillions of guns to take on the desert planet Pandora.
Borderlands at a glance Released 2009 Studio Gearbox Software Player sentiment 81% positive of 27,781 Price $29.99 FPSShooterFirst-PersonDark HumorComedyGoreFunnyViolent
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Just Cause
Why it matched: both open world; shares 6 player tags including Shooter, Third Person and Sandbox; released around the same time (2006).
Your world...Your rules!
Just Cause at a glance Released 2006 Studio Avalanche Studios Group Player sentiment 66% positive of 5,323 Price $6.99 ShooterThird PersonSandboxClassicViolentFunny
- 21
RAGE 2
Why it matched: both open world; shares 7 player tags including FPS, Gore and Shooter.
RAGE 2 brings together two studio powerhouses – Avalanche Studios, masters of open world insanity, and id Software, creators of the first-person shooter – to deliver a carnival of carnage where you can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything.
RAGE 2 at a glance Released 2019 Studio id Software Player sentiment 63% positive of 17,044 Price $39.99 FPSGoreShooterViolentFirst-PersonFunnySandbox
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Dude Simulator
Why it matched: both open world; shares 7 player tags including Funny, Sandbox and Shooter.
Dude Simulator is an open world sandbox game. This is a life simulator. The main objective is to enjoy what you are doing.
Dude Simulator at a glance Released 2017 Studio Kiddy Player sentiment 62% positive of 2,068 Price $4.99 FunnySandboxShooterFirst-PersonGoreComedyViolent
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Garry's Mod
Why it matched: shares 7 player tags including Sandbox, Moddable and Funny; released around the same time (2006).
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Garry's Mod at a glance Released 2006 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 97% positive of 1,261,793 Price $9.99 SandboxModdableFunnyFirst-PersonFPSComedyShooter
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Quake III Arena
Why it matched: shares 7 player tags including FPS, Classic and Shooter; released around the same time (1999).
The greatest warriors of all time and space have been summoned to battle for the amusement of an ancient alien race. Wield a variety of guns and power-ups as you fight for glory against ruthless combatants in this fast-paced single-player and multiplayer FPS.
Quake III Arena at a glance Released 1999 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 96% positive of 4,100 Price $14.99 FPSClassicShooterFirst-PersonGoreModdableViolent
Common questions
What game is most like Postal 2?
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition, on the evidence we have. It both open world. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to Postal 2" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with Postal 2. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.