More than 100,000 people currently play the Steam game where you click a banana

Steam is home to some absolutely fantastic games – everything from psychological horror to great pet simulators. It is also home to a game simply called banana.

“What exactly is a banana?” I hear you asking. Well, it’s a free-to-play game where you can’t do anything more than tap on the banana picture, where a counter records the number of times you’ve tapped on it.

However, despite this simple concept, there are over 100,000 people currently playing Banana.

At the time of writing, 137,817 Steam users have tapped a banana on the screen (or at least opened the game).

To compare that, there are currently 42,521 people playing Helldivers 2, Ghost of Tsushima has 23,511 current players, and Hellblade 2 has 199 players. Even with Banana being a free-to-download game, it’s still great to see those numbers… so, of course I had to give it a try.

Ladies and gentlemen, Banana became the first game in which I was able to achieve all the achievements. I thought it was because I tapped the banana 100 times, which gave me the “click” badge, but after digging further, I was able to unlock this achievement after opening the game for 1 minute, so I may have just happened to tap 100 after that. 60 seconds.

Surely there must be more to bananas than that? Even though I achieved my accomplishment, I kept clicking. I had a hunch something would happen when I hit 1000 clicks.

997, 998, 999… The moment of truth has arrived. I clicked again and… nothing happened. The banana stayed on my screen as it had been since the beginning.

Despite this seemingly benign game, further research led me to… Other than bananasAnd revealing that this game is not just an idle hobby. It’s actually a game that allows players to collect bananas to sell on the Steam marketplace, increasing their Steam wallet balance.

Some bananas in the market go for pennies ( Banana pandanana Currently available at 3p), but others are selling for a much higher price. there Banana cryptonana Currently available from £254.52. There appear to be only 25 of these bananas in existence.

As far as I can tell, there isn’t any suspicious blockchain-related situation going on with the whole Banana movement, but it’s certainly not what I was expecting to happen this afternoon. I think every one of them.