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CORN, a bit cryptic title that’s not even precisely new, is now hovering by way of the Steam charts with a 2,673% participant uptick over the previous 24 hours. What the hell are we taking a look at?
CORN got here out in October 2024 and struggled to interrupt a 50 concurrent participant common till halfway by way of Could of 2025, when it surged to a median of over 1,000 concurrent gamers. It remained there till nearly now, when it exploded in reputation out of nowhere as soon as extra.
On the time of this writing, CORN is sitting at 20,000 concurrent gamers. That’s a determine well beyond something you’d anticipate from a non-marketed title that launched so modestly over one yr in the past, and one which may be very outdated by the point anybody reads this.
The place does CORN come from, what does CORN play like?
CORN is the brainchild of Group Sneed, an indie studio that makes use of CORN’s Steam web page to proudly remind customers that they’re additionally answerable for a recreation known as CUCKOLD SIMULATOR: Life as a Beta Male Cuck, which I undoubtedly gained’t get into right here as a result of we’re quick on time and completely no different motive.
CORN, regardless of its studio’s historical past and a reputation that the Web lately selected to characterize one thing a lot much less harmless than this poor cereal, is definitely as tame because it will get. You click on on a nonetheless picture of a corncob to see a counter seem above it, and you find yourself getting extra items of corn. That’s it, or is it?
Is CORN the brand new Banana?
I apologize to anybody flabbergasted by the obvious lack of sense within the header above. Banana, you see, is the identify of one other mystifying recreation, one we’ve coated extensively in a determined try to elucidate its mid-2024 excessive surge in reputation. Lengthy story quick, it’s a recreation the place gamers simply click on on a nonetheless picture of a banana and see a counter go up by one with every click on. Not precisely riveting gameplay, making the truth that it as soon as reached 400,000 concurrent gamers—and nonetheless sits as Steam’s eighth greatest recreation, with over 100,000 gamers—all of the extra puzzling.
The factor is, it’s all about cash. Although the Web is not any stranger to becoming a member of random bandwagons, the take care of Banana was that the objects it supplied gamers have been built-in into the Steam market, with the rarest bananas turning up fairly beneficial. Corn is however a extra advanced model of the identical recreation. So, Steam customers aren’t taking a look at corn for enjoyable, however revenue, for as soon as. One other doable clarification for the big uptick in participant rely is the excessive probability that a large variety of bots are already exploiting the chance to revenue from this “new” development.
CORN nonetheless doesn’t have Banana‘s numbers, however rising to over 20,000 concurrent gamers in simply 24 hours, it would get there quickly.
