What Is The Banana Game & Why Is Everyone Playing It?

Steamusers paying attention to the most popular games on the platform may have noticed a dramatic spike in popularity for an unknown game called, leaving them to wonder what this new game is. At the time of writing, has nearly 850,000 concurrent players, putting it in second place behind only. This means currently has more active players than games like and.

How exactly a game nobody had ever heard of two months ago suddenly became one of Steam’s most popular games is an interesting question. This curiosity only intensifies when players learn the game's actual content. What seems to have happened is that, intentionally or otherwise, has created an environment similar to other recent social trends online, leading players to believe it isn’t just a game but a viable source of income.

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Opening up, players will be met with a dark yellow screen and a picture of the titular fruit. Clicking the banana causes a counter to appear above it, tracking the number of times the player has clicked the banana. And that’s it; that is the entire gameplay experience of . There is no way to expand into automatic clicks like in , and seemingly no goals behind raising the counter.

The only thing differentiating from just entering “+1” on a calculator app and spamming the equals sign is the occasional drops that players will receive. Every so often, players will receive a picture of a banana that is added to their Steam inventory. These drops are not determined by the number of clicks, but instead by time. As long as players keep the game open in the background and occasionally click the banana, they will receive one of these banana pictures.

All of 's banana images are created in part by the community through the game's official Discord server.

Given this is the entire functionality of the game, many players are likely to be wondering why it's