10 Video Games You're Secretly A Fan Of

1. Postal 2

Postal 2
Running With Scissors

Postal 2 is a game that probably wouldn't get made today, and even if it did, it'd probably end up de-listed from Steam after a series of think-pieces detailing its flagrant moral bankruptcy.

The 2003 FPS sequel is a no-holds-barred affair in which the player plays The Postal Dude, a perennially pissed off maniac given carte blanche to destroy the sleepy town of Paradise, Arizona, with guns, explosives, and even their own urine.

It hasn't got a single politically correct bone in its body, taking an equal opportunities approach to punching every possible social target it can, and even allowing players to massacre the offices of the developers themselves, Running with Scissors.

It's an easy game to dismiss as offensive, childish trash, but there's also a liberating quality to it, that a game exists where you can both use a cat's anus as a gun silencer and murder legendary child star Gary Coleman.

Postal is more than just shock value for shock's sake, though: it lets players unspool their unfiltered id in a creative and deeply satirical way, even if a cursory glance might suggest it was made by a cabal of snickering edgelords.

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