Why a game in which you only have to touch a banana has almost a million players

Banana is about to surpass Baldur’s Gate III, the Game of the Year 2023, in number of simultaneous players. Why is it the second most played game on Steam?

There are more than 50,000 games on Steam, for all likes and dislikes. From masterpieces to simple nonsense that don’t even deserve to be called games. ¿Where does it fit? Banana? It is the simplest and most boring game in the world, but it has almost a million players. How is it possible?

Banana it is a free game what can you download on Steam. On the screen appears… well that, a great banana yellow, which you can see in the opening photo of the news. The only thing you have to do is… click with the mouse on the banana. That adds one to the counter. And he’s done.

How is it possible for something so simple and boring to accumulate almost 900,000 simultaneous players? Well, there’s something else… but it’s almost as absurd as the above.

I sell you my banana

As I have mentioned, in Banana You just have to click the mouse on the banana to add a point to the counter. After three hours… another banana appears, and you receive a collectible item.

This item has a unique design of a banana, and can be sold in marketplace from Steam. 99.999% of the time you receive a regular banana for which, at most, you will be paid 25 euro cents. But, 0.001% of the time, you receive a rare banana, which you can sell for a few euros.

We assume that this is the reason why it has managed to gather 884,469 simultaneous players in Steamaccording to Steam Charts. It is a free game with which you can earn money…if you spend hours and hours clicking on the banana.

From the outside it may seem silly, but right now the developer is earning thousands of eurosbecause for each banana who sells, takes a part. Not bad for half an hour of work it must have taken to make the game…

What is less explainable is how people can spend hours with the fruit on the screen…

This is the crazy world of Steam: a game in which you only have to click on a banana, it is the second most played on the platformabout to surpass the record of simultaneous players of Baldur’s Gate III. Seeing is believing…

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