Breadwinner Game – Six Paydays, One Family Budget

The Breadwinner Filipino game by Mithika Games was submitted to the Filipino Horror Game Jam 2026 under the theme Real Life Horror. It follows the pressure of providing for an entire household: six salaries before Christmas and more needs than those salaries can cover. The emotional weight comes from specific responsibilities. Paying for housing, health, education or a small request from the youngest sibling changes what the family goes through when you get home. Family reactions and final letters connect those practical decisions to the people waiting for you. Looking for Breadwinner on itch.io? Mithika Games offers an HTML5 prototype that runs in your browser. The developer estimates a playthrough at roughly 30–90 minutes and provides Filipino and English text. Budgeting, walking and interaction create a repeating rhythm: earn, decide, return and face the outcome. The horror is grounded in family strain and difficult events. The developer lists parent illness and death, debt, lender threats, gambling, alcohol and other disturbing subjects. A shooting and bullying are mentioned rather than shown, and there is some dried blood but no gore. Choose it for a story about responsibility and consequences, and review these themes before you start.

Click Play Now above to open the Mithika Games itch.io page. Select Run game there to load Breadwinner. The story is available in Filipino and English, and it follows the family's six paydays leading up to Christmas. You play the eldest sibling, the only person in the household earning a salary. Each payday brings requests that compete for the same money: rent, electricity, your mother's medicine, your sister's school fees and a coloring book for the youngest sibling. Read each request before paying. The budgeting screen is about deciding which obligations you can cover and which will stay unpaid. After allocating the salary, walk home and interact with the family. Their reactions reflect the decisions you made. The game remembers which requests you paid and which you refused, so each payday affects the story that follows, not just a single number. Repeat this cycle through the remaining paydays. On a replay, try a set of priorities on purpose so you can compare how the consequences change. The family's final letters depend on your choices, so each ending reflects how the household experienced them. On desktop, use A and D to walk and click nearby objects or characters to interact. On a phone, use the on-screen left and right buttons and tap highlighted objects. The mobile update highlights interactable objects while keeping the story, bills and endings the same. The developer tested only a few phones, so performance may vary by browser and device.