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Nothing is written about taste, the saying goes, but this game takes the concept to the extreme: right now there are 36,700 people playing a game on the Steam platform called Banana in which nothing happens. Whoever installs the game will see a banana on the screen, on which it is possible to click… with no visible effect. Over the weekend he celebrated 10,000 members on Discord and had a peak of 46,413 people playing at the same time, clicking on the screen, to see if something happens. And nothing.
“It’s a scam!” they will say. But the game has no cost. Strictly speaking, it is enough play one minute every three hours to receive some kind of medal, a unique item that can then be exchanged for others. AND It is possible to buy, as a reminder of the madness that the modern world sometimes has, it is a souvenir: a banana that, unlike the original (ripe and healthy looking) is intervened. There is the hacked banana, the biosnana (booting a PC in the shape of a banana), the blackholenana (a banana with a halo similar to a photograph of a black hole), the oceanana (a banana whose body is an animation of a wave ) or Anomalynana, a banana with a psychedelic undertone. Do you want them? You have to pay 374.75 pesos each, taking into account the original price (25 cents) and its local price.
But there is also special bananas, which some users obtained and are sold on the Steam market at a higher price: the Crypticana, of which there are only 25, sold for $231; the Shiny Banana, for $82; There’s even the diamond banana, which someone is offering for $832. Apparently, there is a one in a hundred thousand chance that the game will offer that banana as a prize, as explained on Dexerto.
It is a joke? Yes and no. Like a direct predecessor (Egg, which went unnoticed on Steam), Banana belongs to a type of game called “clicker”, in which there is not much to do except click with the mouse in the game to obtain some reward or activate some action on the screen, usually following a script defined by whoever created the game.
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