If you sometimes happen to check the SteamDB chart, Banana, you might wonder why the free-to-play game, which clearly clicks on the jpeg of bananas and nothing else, is currently sitting at number 47 - just shy four ranks of Cyberpunk 2077, and you might be wondering why. The game ranks above real video games like Kill and Fallout 76, Diablo 4, and Spire.

So did I.On PC Gamer, in fact, I sat on my phone this morning and stared puzzled at tens of thousands of active players clicking through the jpeg. My hot work is never over, so I bravely jumped on the grenade and dug a little — after all, I lost my mind, so there's a whole genre of these things that I'll have to dub "egglikes" in the future.

Egglikes — again, a term I've completely invented — still has more than 4,500 people playing it when I'm writing this Old (and therefore not very popular) egg or egg is very similar to a banana, but most of the playtime clicks on a picture of an egg, but if you value sanity, most of the time it's a

The actual game connected to the egg and banana has little to do with the software. Instead, they have everything to do with the steam item. These items earned by playing games you own may be sold on the market for cash entering your Steam wallet or traded at 1:1. 

They are a bit different from the Steam trading cards you are likely to have a collection of — like the TF2hats in the banana game version. Their prices can fluctuate based on various factors, which means that it is possible to play the market by low purchases and high sales.

Bananas were directly inspired by eggs: its creator, Robert Partyson (I don't think that's their real name somehow), told the game's Steam forum, "This is "lol," he added.

Disassembling it, Partyson explains that you need to get "like 2 items once a day" as long as you immerse yourself in a game that you occasionally click on. You can then step into the Steam Marketplace to sell or buy.

"By opening the game and playing for one minute, then you can collect by clicking on the bananas every three hours. After playing [for] one hour, you will unlock an unusual drop pool that will drop bananas every 18 hours. Just click once to come back to the game every [3-18] hours."There are also special events for unusual, event-based bananas.

Most common bananas are sold for meager income, up to a few cents, but some are listed for hundreds of dollars, like this diamond banana. Mind, no one buys it for that price, most offers range from 8 to 81, but still much more reasonable. Asking around, I'm told by the (really friendly and healthy) community that there are 2 factors in the banana game — grinding and investing in nanas.

Look, it's real to play egglikes without clicking on eggs, or bananas, or whatever it is, as long as you have a little cash to spend if you want to interface with these games purely by buying and selling banana jpeg stonks. You can absolutely do it. 

Some players are just doing it from a mixture of philanthropy and general memeage — I saw as a similarly perplexed player asked: "tf is the guy who buys regular bananas, [I] don't understand", another player replied: "I. I buy in bulk from people for some cards and other bananas...I just want a bunch of them. By the way, you should let me have yours."

I'd like to imagine that they're gathering all the bananas in a big pool, like the softest and most uncomfortable Scrooge McDuck dive in the world."

Also hiding in the corner of this strange world of the Internet, a budding small art community is happening. Among all the cursed horrors and piracy that players can drop on proposals for bananas on the art channel, from these card sellers

What surprised me the most was the lack of real sketches — indeed, it allowed me to argue that these are not actually video games However, Steam's Marketplace has existed since ancient times, and these aren't the first idle games to drop items. It is reminiscent of Nft, just...Not including all speculative and monkey-led nonsense. 

The fairly low stakes also help — you're just getting cash to spend on other Steam games. The community has less than that big tech fellow stank about it and reminds me of a lot of kids swapping stones at the playground, and I complimented a bunch of relatively cold guys who opened the door in the hope that I would stumble into some secret mafia lair and race their pet snails instead. See

Anyway, both bananas and eggs are free if you want to get on with this...Exercise "Sure, let's go with it. At least, it lacks the blockchain nonsense that keeps trying to worm its way into the game. I'll always take speculative banana and egg jpegs on top of crypto.