The most recent craze among gamers is the Banana <\/em>game that promises players a lot of money for… clicking on a banana for dozens of hours. It caught on so well that it has now entered Steam’s top 10 most-played games of all time with nearly 850,000 concurrent players. <\/p>
That puts it in spitting distance of Baldur’s Gate 3<\/em>, 2023’s biggest game and one that has been in the 10 best-selling games on Steam for nearly a year now. It also crossed Cyberpunk 2077<\/em> which had an amazing redemption arc spanning nearly three full years. The reason behind all this is pretty clear: the Banana <\/em>game<\/a> promises random drops every three and 18 hours that some players have already been selling for insane amounts of money<\/a>. One banana item has sold for over $1,000, though the value has been largely dropping with the current most expensive listed item going for about $220. <\/p>
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Some players have been calling the game a scam, including YouTuber Charlie from MoistCritikal, who called the game a “huge Steam scam game,” in his June 16 video<\/a>. While most of the reviews are positive (and jokes), there are some who feel disgruntled and claim that the developer is “exploiting” users. One review<\/a> explains how the developer earns a commission from each banana sold. Most bananas will sell for three cents on the Steam market (the minimal value) and the developer gets a cent of that each time. With nearly 900,000 players, according to SteamCharts<\/a>, the developer might be making upward of $72,000 each day from the three-cent sales on the Steam market. <\/p>
