A clicker game with a banana attracted over 220,000 simultaneous users on Steam

Banana, a free clicker game where you click on a banana image, has broken into the list of the most popular games on Steam. According to SteamDB, on June 10, Banana reached a record peak of 220,621 simultaneous players on Valve’s platform. View the stats.

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As of the news publication, Banana ranks seventh in the list of games with the highest daily player count, surpassing GTA V (165,000 players), Rust (160,000 players), Call of Duty (118,000 players), and Helldivers 2 (63,000 players).

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The hype around Banana is explained by its economic aspect. Essentially, nothing happens in Banana. The user simply clicks on an image and watches as the click counter above the banana image changes. However, from time to time, bananas with different skins appear, which can be sold on the Steam marketplace. Most drops sell for just a few cents, but some are priced at over $50. The most expensive offer currently is $1,800 for a special Golden Banana.

However, not all 220,000 users are real people. In an interview with Polygon, one of the authors of Banana revealed that the project is swamped with bots. He estimates that, by the end of last week, only about a third of the users were real. The developers have contacted Valve to resolve this issue together.