Over 700,000 players hope to make money with bananas, making “Banana” the second most played game on Steam.
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What kind of game is it? The “game” is called “Banana” and was released on April 23, 2024, on Steam. Banana is a so-called clicker game. This means you do nothing but click with your mouse on a virtual banana.
- Players can receive more bananas when the game runs for a certain time. The new bananas come in different designs.
- These new bananas appear every 3 and every 18 hours – provided you have clicked on your banana at least once.
- However, the new bananas are not skins or similar. They are just images that you cannot equip in the game.
On Steam, Banana has now reached a player peak of 702,000 and is currently the second most played game on Steam (via SteamDB). It has more players than Dota 2, PUBG, GTA V, or Elden Ring. Only Counter-Strike 2 is currently more popular.
Wealth through banana trading?
Why do players hope to make money from it? When you receive a new banana, you can sell it on the Steam marketplace – similar to skins in Counter-Strike. And just like in CS2, the bananas are supposed to drop in different rarity levels.
The idea of many “players” is therefore to get a rare banana with a bit of luck and sell it on the marketplace. The buyer hopes in this assumption to sell the banana for an even higher price later. The principle is similar to NFTs, which also tried to gain a foothold in gaming a few years ago.
Another important aspect of this trade is the so-called “Fomo”, meaning “Fear of missing out”. The bananas you can receive change regularly. Some bananas disappear from the drop pool and are no longer available – unless you buy them. This also leads gaming professionals to regard Banana as a really bad scam.
Also, Ubisoft tried its hand at NFTs a few years ago and even showed a trailer with content for Ghost Recon Breakpoint:
Should you play Banana and quickly buy bananas? Ultimately, that’s your decision, but the chance of making a profit by selling a banana is probably higher if you set up at the weekly market in your hometown.
When buying a banana in Steam’s community market, you cannot see who is selling the banana. Moreover, the true drop chances are not visible. So we do not know if any of the “rare” and expensive bananas can actually drop for the average player, or if the “developers” are trying to make money this way.
However, Banana must already prepare for competition, as another clicker game called “Cats” was released on May 21, where you receive cats instead of bananas. Cats is also gaining popularity and already has over 19,000 players on Steam.
If you don’t want to spend your money on virtual bananas but on real food, MeinMMO editor Benedict has introduced seven snacks that you can actually eat. And the best part: You won’t mess up your entire gaming setup with them: 7 gaming snacks that taste good but won’t mess up your controller or crumbs on your keyboard
