If you regularly stare at the Steam charts to see if there’s anything new and exciting to play, you may have noticed an. It has quickly become a huge success and, as of this writing, sits at the number three spot with over 400,000 concurrent players. It’s a simple idle clicker game, like many before it, so what’s making players flock to what amounts to a static screen of a huge banana?
The promise of sweet, sweet cash, that’s what. It’s an extremely bare-bones title that has you repeatedly clicking on a banana., though there’s a twist. As you click and click on the tropical fruit, there’s a chance of a banana sticker dropping into your Steam inventory. These bananas come in all different designs, from silver-encrusted variants to one that looks like it's glitching out from a hack.Because the bananas show up in your inventory, they can be sold on the Steam Marketplace.
If the idea of spending all day clicking on a fake banana in front of a vomit-green background doesn’t do it for you, the developersor a Ponzi scheme, simply saying that it’s “pretty much a stupid game.” Idle clickers, after all, are nothing new. As for the future, the designers have teased updates, including a way to use inventory items to change the way the plain in-game banana looks. There also might be a minigame coming down the pike, as well a shop upgrade that lets players exchange multiples of the same banana for a unique drop. One thing is a near certainty. The massive popularity ofis sure to inspire a whole bunch of copycats. May I humbly suggest a pizza slice as something to click over and over.