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If you regularly check the Steam charts for new and interesting games, A strange little “game” called bananaIt was an immediate success, and as of this writing sits at number 3 in terms of concurrent players with over 400,000. It’s a simple idle clicking game, like many before it, but why are players flocking to a static screen of a giant banana?
Sweet sweet cash is promised and that’s it. It’s a very simple title that just involves clicking bananas repeatedly. That’s about it.There’s a little twist, though: if you keep clicking the tropical fruit, it has a chance of dropping a banana sticker into your Steam inventory. These bananas come in a variety of designs, from ones covered in silver to ones that look like they’ve been glitched with a hack.
The bananas will appear in your inventory and can be sold on the Steam Marketplace. Rare bananas have already sold for $1,400, with the average price being around $0.02. One of the developers calls this a “legitimate infinite money glitch.” Interview polygon“Users are making money playing free games while also selling free virtual items,” he continued.
The money you make goes into your Steam wallet and can be used to buy games. So these bananas are essentially NFTs, but without the blockchain. People are buying and selling bananas like crazy, like weird fruit trading cards. Forget banana stands, these are just banana knockoffs that look like they have money in them.
If clicking fake bananas in front of a vomit-green background all day sounds like too much to you, the developers Sell bananas in stock immediately Each click costs $0.25. However, the game itself is free to play. The developer It is a type of fraud. Nor is it a Ponzi scheme, he says, just a “pretty stupid game.” Idle-click games are nothing new, after all.
As for the future, the designers have teased updates, including a way to change the appearance of the plain bananas in the game with inventory items, as well as mini-games and upgrades to the shop where you can trade in multiples of the same banana for unique drops. One thing is almost certain: banana I’m sure there will be many copycats, but I’d like to recommend the pizza slice as something that clicks over and over again.