If you regularly stare at the Steam charts to see if there\u2019s anything new and exciting to play, you may have noticed an odd little \u201cgame\u201d called Banana<\/em><\/a>. It has quickly become a huge success and, as of this writing, sits at the number three spot with over 400,000 concurrent players. It\u2019s a simple idle clicker game, like many before it, so what\u2019s making players flock to what amounts to a static screen of a huge banana?<\/p>\n The promise of sweet, sweet cash, that\u2019s what. It\u2019s an extremely bare-bones title that has you repeatedly clicking on a banana. That\u2019s pretty much it<\/a>, though there\u2019s a twist. As you click and click on the tropical fruit, there\u2019s a chance of a banana sticker dropping into your Steam inventory. These bananas come in all different designs, from silver-encrusted variants to one that looks like it’s glitching out from a hack.<\/p>\n Because the bananas show up in your inventory, they can be sold on the Steam Marketplace. Rare bananas have already gone for as much as $1,400, though the average payout is somewhere in the $0.02 range. One of the developers called it a \u201clegal infinite money glitch\u201d in an interview with Polygon<\/em><\/a>. \u201cUsers make money out of a free game while selling free virtual items,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n The money earned goes into a Steam wallet, which can then be used to purchase games. So these bananas are basically NFTs, only without the blockchain. People are buying and selling them like crazy, like weird fruit-based trading cards. Forget the banana stand: it looks like there\u2019s money in just the facsimile of a banana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n