Filipino horror game Hapunan is about escaping police brutality and selling fertilised duck eggs
<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/hapunan-filipino-horor-balut-3.jpg?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Today I learned about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food)">balut</a>, a street food of the Philippines. It's a fertilized duck egg, boiled or steamed, in which you can still see the duck embryo as you munch. I'm too old to discover this acquired taste on a gap year, but I'm not too old to waltz down the horror aisle in Itch.io, throwing retro jumpscarers into my basket. Which is where first-person Filipino suspense game <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/hapunan">Hapunan</a> <a href="https://yikon.itch.io/hapunan">can be found</a>. You play a young street food vendor hawking the eggs on a quiet corner late at night. Naturally, something alarming is afoot. There is talk on the radio of dangerous folk out at night...</p>
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