The Steam Banana Game is basically a cookie clicker– or a Banana Clicker to be precise. Sounds pretty basic and mainstream, but you’d be surprised by the numbers the Banana Game is pulling on Steam Charts. The game has over 700,000 active players, which is nuts. So, how does a Banana clicker with an image of a JPEG achieve that. It’s simple–incentivize it with the possibility of making quick money. Well, let’s take a look at the Banana game on Steam and see if this cookie clicker is worth the salt? Or is the Banana game just a new-found scam?
What is the Banana Game on Steam?
The Banana Game on Steam is a free-to-play cookie clicker with an interesting twist, which might take you down memory lane (it’s like NFTs without a Blockchain). Banana on Steam gives you item drops or banana drops every 3 hours to 18 hours. The number of banana drops you get varies as they’re randomized. But according to the Banana game Discord, it seems that the game checks if you’re eligible for a banana drop every 3 minutes or so.
So, let’s delve into the mechanics of the game. Banana is built on the Unity engine, and all you have to do is click a JPEG of a Banana. The game doesn’t keep track of your clicks, either. Once you close it, the tracker resets.
The game rewards you with either Common or Rare Bananas, which drop into your Inventory. Banana Skins have different prices on the Steam Marketplace, ranging from just 0.03 dollars–3 cents to upwards of 200 dollars, and newer ones costing even more…
Why Are So Many People Playing The Banana Game on Steam?
The reason so many people are playing the Banana Clicker game on Steam is because of the tied-in loot drop or banana drop feature. These cosmetic bananas unfortunately cannot be used in the game and offer no functionality whatsoever. But players can trade bananas on the Steam Marketplace–if anyone ends up buying a Banana from them, which seems highly unlikely.
If I speculate, it seems that most of the players, actively playing the Banana clicker on Steam–are gamers or impressionable kids trying to make a quick buck or two. With a guarantee of receiving a guaranteed “Rare Banana”, users are either botting, or running the game in the background. To make things even more ridiculous, Banana players are running autoclickers, just to make sure they get a guaranteed drop.
The Banana Game on Steam Is A Scam
Developed by a band of four developers; AestheticSpartan, Sky, aaladin66, and Pony, the Banana Game is a scam. Why, you might ask? Well, the Banana game leaves a sour taste in my mouth as it reminds me of the days of NFTs. To me, it seems like the game is geared at impressionable gamers and young kids to make money fast.
It’s quite likely that the developers are dumping Rare Banana Skins into the Steam Marketplace while setting a pretty price on those Bananas Skins. For example, some users have spent around 50 dollars on the “Shiny Banana” skin in hopes of flipping it down the line for a profit.
In addition, the developers get a share from every Banana sold on the Steam Marketplace, and so does Steam. So, for any Banana transactions happening on the Steam Marketplace, the developers are gaining a profit, in addition to any new Rare Bananas they’ve dumped and sold on the Steam Marketplace.
Conclusion
The Banana game is a scam in the sense that users are either spending days, running the game in the background with op autoclicker enabled, in hopes of getting rare bananas. They hope to turn a profit from selling these bananas on the Steam Marketplace. But who in their right mind would buy Banana skins on Steam?
And who’s to say that the bulk of the Bananas in the Steam Marketplace pool aren’t being dumped by the developers? There’s no way to confirm this speculation because users can’t see the individual seller listings on the Steam Marketplace.