Developer posts and news about this game.
Dear Reader, I am happy to announce that Postal Strike has left Early Access and has released in 1.0! It's been a wild ride... I knew nothing about pixel art or coding when I started on this game. The GdQuest coding tutorial and a quick play on Aseprite convinced me to give it a
Dear Reader, I've come with exciting news: Postal Strike will release in 1.0 at some point before the end of March! A bit vague I admit but we're nearly there. So far in Early Access I've added: 0.7 : 11 new enemies (fox, hedgehog, swan, snail, wasps, bird, dog x2, postbox x3) 0.
Dear Reader, Here's a very small update fixing the 16:10 resolution setting. The should automatically default to 16:10 ratio when on fullscreen on a 16:10 monitor now. I've tested on my Steamdeck and PC and it's working great for me, but let me know if not for you! Kind regards,
Dear reader, This is a small patch to fix a few issues and add in an extra community-requested resolution! Please see full patch notes below: Rebalanced the price of several food items Added in a new 16:10 resolution Made standard letters a little faster Applied a new fix for Lar
Dear Reader, Another day, another update - this one was MUCH faster to finish. I've updated the game to 0.9, adding lots more shop items in the process. I wanted to add in more healing food and food with trade offs into the shop to help make that side of it more interesting. Alon
Dear Reader, I've made some fixes and tweaks to the 0.8 beta. Here are the fixes and balances in this patch: Large Letter should more reliably make it's way across the whole screen now Large Letter is larger! L arge Letter' s hit box has been tweaked Boss Health has been boosted
Dear reader, Thanks for your patience on the new update. I'm happy to present Postal Strike 0.8 to you - now with even more letters! I've always been aware that before you've bought extra letter types from the Upgrades menu, the pool of weapons is a little limited... therefore th
Greetings dear reader and Happy New Year! It's been a minute. I had some lovely time off but don't worry - I haven't been idle. Work has been progressing on the weapons update! Turns out adding new weapons can break a LOT in the game, but I'm at a place where I'm happy with two n
Dear reader, Here's another update ironing out some issues! The fixes/tweaks of this patch are: Reduced later day lengths Made confused enemies invulnerable (so you can't accidentally kill them) Reduced initial Hate mail damage Made sure Red Letter consistently appears when unloc
Dear reader, I've pushed out a few more fixes from issues I saw after watching my brother play! They are: Made sure the stats on the pause, shop and level up menus properly matched up Tweaked some of the XP drops from enemies (let me know if levelling up is too fast/slow now!) Re
Dear reader, I've pushed out a small update to mop up a couple of issues from the latest update. The fixes are: Made sure the boss actually spawns again on Sunday Flipped the wasps around (they were flying backwards!) Patched a bug that made Leaflet being completely overpowered (
Dear reader, Thanks for the feedback so far on the enemies update - I've chosen to release it into the main game so more people can play it and added a couple of extra enemies compared to the beta. This update adds 11 new enemies . They are: The weak but damaging Hedgehog The spe
Dear reader, Thank you for all the feedback on the game so far! I've been working away on a new enemy update all week, and we're looking good to release it before the end of the year I hope! You can access this enemy update now in beta - the beta code is PostiesRule123 The beta u
Dear player, Hope you're having a lovely time living your enemy-dispatching-Postie-dream. Your feedback will make this game much better and with that in mind I've just pushed out the first Postal Strike patch. It's only a small one but fixes the following: Changed some annoying c
Dear Potential Posties, ːsteamhappyː I'm super excited to announce that Postal Strike is out NOW in early access! ːshockedstar2022ː It's my take on the Survivor-like genre. The whole game making experience has been super fun and I hope you enjoy playing my first attempt. Early Ac
Dearest reader, Hope you're well. Just a quick one to say that the release date is LOCKED IN : Monday 1st December 2025 ːluvː I've been working away on several new features including: The final unlockable Postie (for now) 2 new letter weapons (Complaint and Leaflet) A tutorial me
Dear reader, My name's Jimmy and I'm the solo dev for Postal Strike . ːluvː Turns out making a game is HARD but It's so lovely to see so many wishlists, I really appreciate it! I've been working hard behind the scenes getting the game ready for release and I wanted to give a quic