Game

Postal 4: No Regrets

2022

41Score

Concerning Cash-Grab Signs

Several sourced extraction signals remain unresolved.

What counts as a cash grab?

Commercial extraction prioritized over meaningful consumer or creative value. Profit, popularity, adaptations, sequels, remakes, high budgets, and normal marketing do not count by themselves.

Why?

Postal 4: No Regerts, released on PC in April 2022, was marketed as the "true sequel" to Postal 2 but received broadly negative critical response for poor optimization, frequent bugs, and dated crude humor. Reviews and aggregator pages show generally unfavorable scores and repeated criticism that the game largely reuses the franchise formula without meaningful improvements. Price-tracking sites and storefront data document repeated steep discounts after release. I found evidence of technical shortcomings and branding leverage, but not of predatory microtransactions or explicit deceptive financial practices.

Widespread critical reports of bugs, poor optimization, and low review scores at and after release.
Official marketing positioned it as the 'true sequel', leveraging franchise recognition.
Price-history records show repeated substantial post-release discounts.

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Independent outlets noted the game mainly reused Postal 2 style and crude humor with limited innovation

Score factors

Direction	Factor	Evidence	Impact
For	Technical launch and reviews	Aggregated critic coverage documents widespread bugs, poor optimization, and generally unfavorable reviews around the April 2022 release.[1]	+14
For	Steep post-release discounts	Price-history trackers show the game received large discounts after release, with SteamDB recording much lower sale prices than the original listing.[2][3]	+14
For	Derivative design and crude humor	Multiple reviews state the title largely reuses Postal 2's structure and crude comedic approach without substantial new design or improvement.[1][4]	+13
For	Marketing as true sequel	The official Steam store text and publisher materials explicitly billed Postal 4 as the 'long-awaited true sequel' to Postal 2, using franchise recognition in promotion.[5]	+9
Against	Ongoing updates and Early Access history	The title had an Early Access history and later storefront/news posts and reviews note post-release updates, indicating ongoing developer support after launch.[1]	-6
Against	Some outlets note ambition despite flaws	At least one major outlet highlighted the game's ambitions and ideas even while criticizing its amateurish execution and taste.[6]	-3

Confidence: Medium · Reviews, storefront text, and price-history sites give strong evidence of low-quality launch, branding leverage, and steep discounts, but I found no sourced evidence of predatory monetization like microtransactions or deceptive refund practices. · Researched 2026-08-18

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