Postal: Brain Damaged, the boomer shooter spin-off of Running With Scissors' long-running series, has launched its These Sunny Daze DLC on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch. The expansion, developed by Warsaw-based Hyperstrange and published by Running With Scissors, sends the Postal Dude on a beach vacation that predictably goes sideways. The base game and DLC are also available on PC via Steam and GOG.
The whole thing takes place inside the Postal Dude's head, and the environments reflect that. This is a world built from the warped logic of a deranged mind, hand-crafted levels that shift and change as you push through them. The base game already traded the series' familiar open-ended sandbox for something tighter and more deliberately designed: corridors and arenas packed with enemies attacking from every angle. The DLC leans further into that structure with semi-open levels set across a tropical boardwalk that eventually stretches all the way to the Oval Office. It's garish, crude, and deliberately tasteless, which is exactly the register Postal has operated in for close to three decades. The environments are built to be read at speed, crammed with visual noise that somehow stays legible when you're circle-strafing through a crowd.
Combat runs on movement. The game borrows its kinetic DNA from Quake-era shooters: fast strafing, bunny-hopping, the kind of twitchy navigation where standing still means dying. The DLC adds Sticky Hands, a traversal ability that lets the Postal Dude grapple and swing across arenas at high speed before dropping into melee range. Weapons lean into absurdity over precision: the Nyanbrella, a Weiner-Grinder Shotgun, and the Piss Gun all do exactly what their names suggest. Enemies match that energy. The base game filled its levels with meticulously designed freaks, and the DLC introduces self-obsessed Xitch Thots, swollen Tera Chads, and crusty Hardened Seamen, each name landing somewhere between juvenile and genuinely funny depending on your tolerance. The whole thing is designed to be challenging, with enemy hordes pressing from every direction and level design that forces you to use every tool in the kit.
Hyperstrange, founded on the day of the 2015 solar eclipse, has built a small catalogue around retro-flavoured action. Blood West, their immersive stealth FPS set in a supernatural Wild West, sits alongside Elderborn in a lineup that shows a studio comfortable working in older design idioms without simply copying them. Postal: Brain Damaged was their collaboration with Running With Scissors, the fiercely independent studio that has kept the Postal series alive since the late 1990s. Vince Desi, Running With Scissors' founder, noted that the DLC gives console players on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch a chance to experience the expansion.
The premise is pure Postal. The Dude heads to the beach for a vacation, the President announces a ban on gingers, and the only reasonable response is to fight from the shoreline to the Oval Office with an arsenal of makeshift weapons. It's a thin excuse for violence, and the game knows it. The story exists to move you between arenas and give the carnage a direction, not to make you think. Corey Cruise returns to voice the Postal Dude, and the writing stays locked into the series' trademark register of dark, crude humour and gleeful fantasy violence.
The These Sunny Daze DLC is available now for $7.99, with a bundle containing the base game and expansion priced at $24.99. Postal: Brain Damaged takes a series known for open-world provocation and funnels it into something leaner, a skill-based shooter where the joke is the setting and the challenge is real.