ALBAWABA - In the last two weeks, a game called "Banana" took over Valve's Steam charts becoming one of the most popular titles there. Banana has been an enigma among gamers and social media as its premise garnering approximately a million players worldwide.
Developers Pony, Sky, and AestheticSpartan described the game as:
"It's a clicker Game, in which you click a Banana! In the game, you click the Banana to gain even more Bananas! Every 3 and 18 hours, you get dropped a banana. Each banana is also made by the community in Discord. Come hang out with us and let's grow into something awesome!"
This Banana game took over gaming, beats Counter-Strike 2
The whole premise behind the game is to have players click on the banana as many times as possible which rewards them with different bananas over time.
According to Dexerto, it rose into the charts on Jun. 13, 2024, by becoming the fourth most-played game on Stream which went up with time.
We've seen our fair share of games that took off despite being purposeless including Flappy Bird which rose to charts on release, causing the developer behind it a nightmare that resulted in taking the game off store.
Banana and its link to NFTs
(Pony, Sky, and AestheticSpartan)
According to Trading View, the game has managed to catch the attention of Crypto and NFT heads after they noticed that bananas are getting sold on the Steam Marketplace for as much as $2,000 by the time of writing this article.
By the time of writing this article, The "Razer Banana" in reference to the gaming peripheral brand takes the lead starting at exactly $2,005.43:
(Steam Marketplace)
Other games like Banana have also been known for communities like these including Valve's own Counter-Strike 2 which has a plethora of skins for weapons and knives being sold on Steam's Marketplace.
Things also got out of hand since Twitch streamers started making content out of it since it was viewed as gambling.
