A Game About A Banana Just Skyrocketed Past 160,000 Players On Steam

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Banana, despite its simplicity, has gained popularity on Steam with over 160,000 concurrent players.
The game involves clicking on a banana to earn more bananas, potentially for rare skins to resell.
While some criticize the lack of real gameplay, others enjoy the mindless fun of clicking a banana.

Banana, a free-to-play game on Steam about…well, you guessed it, a banana, has just skyrocketed past 160,000 concurrent players on the platform.

While the game was released all the way back in April, Banana appears to have garnered some newfound fame over the last few days and surpassed over 160,000 concurrent players on Steam, according to SteamDB, a website that tracks the concurrent player count of Steam games, among many other things.

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According to the game’s description, Banana “is a clicker game, in which you click a Banana! In Banana you click the Banana to gain even more Bananas.” As you can probably tell by the game’s description, there’s no real gameplay to Banana, aside from clicking the screen and watching the number above it continue to increase with every click.

Why the game has suddenly skyrocketed in popularity remains a mystery, but there’s speculation that this so-called video game has found such huge popularity because it gives players the opportunity to obtain rare skins to sell on the Steam marketplace. “Thousands of people ‘play’ this title in the hope of obtaining rare skins to resell on the Steam market. However, in 99.999% of cases, players only get skins worth 0.03 euros,” a negative user review states.

While Banana does have thousands of positive reviews and is completely free-to-play, one negative review claims that the game’s creator can earn up to 3,360 euros per day from the reselling of these rare skins. This calculation might be a bit of a stretch, considering it assumes that every individual would play for an entire day and earn the maximum number of skins available, but it shows that this simple game could potentially be a way for the creator to earn some quick cash through resales. According to recent patch notes, the player must click once every 3 hours to get a skin drop and once every 18 hours to get a rare skin drop.

It’s also worth noting that nothing about this process is against Steam’s terms of service, so if users want to spend an entire day clicking a banana to sell skins for 0.03 euros, that’s kind of on them.

Other users appear to be absolutely loving this simple game, with one user review having almost 400 hours in-game and jokingly saying it “changed [their] life.”

Who needs deep, thought-provoking and intense video games that offer an escape from reality when you can just…click a banana, I guess?