Final week, I made a decision to take a look at the Steam sport Banana, as a result of I acquired nothing else happening. Suffice it to say, I didn’t see what all of the fuss was about. That is clearly some type of joke/meme I’m not a part of, however that hasn’t stopped the Cookie Clicker-esque sport from taking the PC platform by storm.

As of proper now (actually, as I sort these phrases out), Banana is the second-most performed sport on Steam. It’s behind the likes of Counter-Strike 2 as a result of good luck knocking that factor off its high spot, but it surely does put it forward of different free-to-play video games like Dota 2 and Apex Legends.

Additionally, it simply retains beating its concurrent participant report. Inside the previous few hours, SteamDB has recorded a reasonably hefty 847,040 folks taking part in in a single go. You possibly can see the graph simply retains going up and up like there’s no stopping it.

Is it even good?

It’s bizarre that it’s turn into so standard these previous few months. It’s exhausting to clarify precisely what’s happening right here, however there’s positively one thing about Banana that’s pulling folks in. On the time of writing, the sport is displaying as “Largely Optimistic” on Steam.

Is it sport? Completely not. You possibly can @ me as a lot as you need, it’s probably not enjoyable to click on on a digital banana to see how excessive the numbers go up. However that isn’t the purpose of it, it appears.

For those who have a look at the encircling group, you’ll see there’s one thing larger than the gameplay itself. The truth that it affords folks the chance to earn (and purchase) banana skins and promote them is nearly definitely the crux of the expertise. All I do know is, it’s making the developer/s fairly rich from only one banana.