Culture | Gaming Gaming has gone weird of late. Publishers and developers are being closed , the gaming giants are making hundreds upon hundreds of people redundant. And now millions of people are playing some strange game called Banana , made by a tiny developer.
According to SteamDB, more than 800,000 people are playing Banana at the time of writing. It hit a peak concurrent user count of 884,469 players, and is the second most popular game on PC platform Steam right now, behind Counter-Strike 2. Want to know the odd part? It’s barely a game.
Banana is a “clicker” title. You click the banana on-screen and a counter rises. Folks actually playing Banana will use what’s known as an auto-clicker, which emulates rapid mouse clicks so they don’t have to give themselves RSI to make the score counter rise.
However, there’s no real point to the game as-is. There are no levels. It is definitely not fun as a game, and there’s a darker level underneath you should be aware of if – for example, if your kids are playing Banana right now.
“Every three and 18 hours, you get dropped a banana,” is the official line. These are collectables that can then be traded and sold on the Steam marketplace. For example, right now there are more than 192,000 “spacenana” collectables listed on the Steam market, each selling for 3p.
There are, however, supposedly highly rare bananas that are considered to be more valuable. The “crypticnana” is listed at £1,343.28 on the Steam m.
