If you like turn on SteamDByou might notice that surprisingly high up on the most played games list is a title called “Banana“. It’s a free to play game in which you do nothing other than click on an image of a banana, without anything special happening.
The game achieved a maximum peak of users of almost 37,000 users and, at that moment, it was also beating top-level names such as Hades 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk 2077 and many many others. What is happening?
Speculate on the banana
Banana is similar to a old game called Egg (egg). Again, you don’t do much other than click on a picture of an egg most of the time, although it makes more sense to let it drift into the background.
The point of these games is not so much to “play” as to exploit the system of objects of Steam. In practice, by playing it is possible to obtain rewards that can be sold or exchanged. Think of something like the hats from Team Fortress 2, but in the form of bananas.
The Egg Maker, Robert Partyson (we bet all our bananas that’s not his real name), commented as you can see in the image above that “this is just an uglier version of the Egg game, LOL”.
On Discord it is explained that “Just open the game and play for a minute, after which every three hours it will be possible to collect a banana by clicking. After playing [per] an hour, the rare item pool is unlocked which will give a banana every 18 hours. Just come back to the game every [3-18] hours and click once”. There are also special events to obtain rare and themed bananas.
The bananas can then be sold in the Steam community. The most common are worth a few cents, while the rarest are even sold for hundreds of dollars. Let’s be clear, no one is paying these amounts and the bids average around $80, but that’s still a lot of money for a digital collector’s item of dubious value.
However, considering that the game is free to play, for some it is a way to accumulate a handful of euros and buy a video game on Steam. The community is made up of many types of players. Some say they buy to give money to others, in a pure act of philanthropy, others because they see it as a funny meme, others simply love accumulating digital bananas. Strange, but they don’t harm anyone.
Also, these aren’t NFTs, there’s no weird polluting blockchains and things like that behind them, so it’s not much different than selling the trading cards we all get from playing on Steam.
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