Banana, a free-to-play recreation on Steam about…properly, you guessed it, a banana, has simply skyrocketed previous 160,000 concurrent gamers on the platform.
Whereas the sport was launched all the best way again in April, Banana seems to have garnered some newfound fame over the previous few days and surpassed over 160,000 concurrent gamers on Steam, based on SteamDB, a web site that tracks the concurrent participant depend of Steam video games, amongst many different issues.
In response to the sport’s description, Banana “is a clicker recreation, by which you click on a Banana! In Banana you click on the Banana to achieve much more Bananas.” As you’ll be able to most likely inform by the sport’s description, there’s no actual gameplay to Banana, except for clicking the display screen and watching the quantity above it proceed to extend with each click on.
Why the sport has instantly skyrocketed in reputation stays a thriller, however there’s hypothesis that this so-called online game has discovered such large reputation as a result of it offers gamers the chance to acquire uncommon skins to promote on the Steam market. “Hundreds of individuals ‘play’ this title within the hope of acquiring uncommon skins to resell on the Steam market. Nevertheless, in 99.999% of circumstances, gamers solely get skins value 0.03 euros,” a adverse consumer overview states.
Whereas Banana does have 1000’s of constructive evaluations and is totally free-to-play, one adverse overview claims that the sport’s creator can earn as much as 3,360 euros per day from the reselling of those uncommon skins. This calculation could be a little bit of a stretch, contemplating it assumes that each particular person would play for a whole day and earn the utmost variety of skins out there, however it exhibits that this straightforward recreation might doubtlessly be a means for the creator to earn some fast money by means of resales. In response to latest patch notes, the participant should click on as soon as each 3 hours to get a pores and skin drop and as soon as each 18 hours to get a uncommon pores and skin drop.
It’s additionally value noting that nothing about this course of is in opposition to Steam’s phrases of service, so if customers need to spend a whole day clicking a banana to promote skins for 0.03 euros, that’s sort of on them.
Different customers seem like completely loving this straightforward recreation, with one consumer overview having nearly 400 hours in-game and jokingly saying it “modified [their] life.”
Who wants deep, thought-provoking and intense video video games that provide an escape from actuality when you’ll be able to simply…click on a banana, I suppose?
