We’d beforehand reported that 30,000 concurrent gamers had been, in some unspecified time in the future within the final month, enjoying Banana, a recreation that amounted to not more than simply clicking the nonetheless picture of a banana. At the moment, Banana had extra gamers than Diablo IV, Fallout 76, and was near beating the following recreation on Steam’s chart record, Cyberpunk 2077.

These had been already historic numbers for such a novelty title, however issues have gotten much more out of hand, because the Banana invasion has simply crossed over the 142,000-player mark. As a result of it’s exhausting to have a look at a quantity and perceive its real-world implications, I’ll let you already know that we’re speaking a few single JPEG-based recreation that’s presently greater on Steam than Elden Ring, Name Of Responsibility, GTA V, and is aiming to take PUBG: Battlegrounds’ 4th place at 156,000.

So what’s particular about Banana?

To be completely sincere, nothing. It’s not even an authentic recreation. The truth is, Banana is just about the identical recreation as Egg, one other JPEG clicker that in some way by no means managed to succeed in such heights. Each video games are merely about clicking a nonetheless picture and seeing a quantity above the banana go up as you click on. You can surprise that persons are making an attempt to see who scores essentially the most clicks, however that’s not it. On prime of its capacity to let gamers move the time in a relaxed method, what makes Banana tick is the promise of scoring some money. Sure, it seems that Banana permits gamers to make some critical(ly low) quantities of money.

Banana‘s collectibles work like Steam’s collectible recreation playing cards, however there’s a twist. Steam offers you a restricted variety of playing cards even for those who merely have a recreation opened in your PC’s background, whereas the bananas you’ll be able to earn in Banana are limitless. You’ll be able to earn them by enjoying the sport for a minute, then clicking each three hours, and you then would possibly earn a uncommon banana as soon as each 18 hours.

On prime of them being value some money, there are numerous completely different bananas, and a few of them have names and look enjoyable sufficient to, on the very least, get an ashamed chuckle out of me.

Most listings don’t go over a number of cents, however a number of of them handle to go over the 2 digits. We’re but to see if this large enhance in numbers will make these values shoot by way of the skies, or if anybody really buys a few of the already ludicrously-priced bananas.

Better of all, nonetheless, is that regardless of what it appears like, Banana is totally blockchain or NFT-unrelated.

You can also now go Bananas on Steam.