Postal: Child of Video Game Controversy

There is another!

The May piece on Edginess and Deliberate Controversy listed a few video games that captured dark, gritty, urban gothic aesthetic well in regard to the atmosphere, in contrast to 2015’s Hatred which arrived a decade and change too late. Then a game was available for sale this summer on Steam: Postal.

That post featured the games that peppered the early-to-mid 2000s. What I hadn’t realized was that Hatred was the child while Postal technically classifies as the parent, although whether Postal eventually comes back with the smokes and milk depends on its attachment to Hatred.

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