Banana is a game where you click on bananas. Literally that's it: there is a picture of a banana and you click on it. It is currently the third most played game on Steam. But one important feature was missing: it doesn't keep track of how many times you click on the banana.

But that is no longer a problem. An update released today adds cumulative banana click tracking to the game, so that instead of the counter resetting every time you start the game, the number of clicks is carried over from session to session.

Frankly, it is puzzling that this was not implemented from the beginning. This is because this is important. We all click bananas for different reasons, but we all have one thing in common: we see that number go up. How many clicks have you made?

It's like having your initials on the high score screen in the heyday of the sketchy, smoke-filled arcade: it's a list of accomplishments, and when that machine is switched off for the night and the record of your deeds is erased, it hurts a little deep down inside.

Here's my act: I clicked the banana 1,056 times in three sessions. I also equipped the Stickerbombanana skin, but don't know how to unequip it without deleting it. Same reason cumulative clicks are so important: I earned this! I worked so hard for this (well, clicked so many times) that I would be pissed if they took it away.

Speaking of weird banana peels, today's update also adds a new inventory system, allowing players to directly equip new bananas or remove unwanted ones. A workshop system has also been added, allowing banana artists to upload their creations and vote to incorporate them into the game.

As mentioned earlier, bananas are tremendously popular. Right now, more people play it than Eldenring, which is the promised proof:

"Strange, isn't it?" some Steam commenters have a clear suspicion that the clicks must be powering the NFT generation behind the scenes or that something fishy is going on. But as Harvey Randall pointed out when the bananas first landed in May, there is "no real weirdness" here. Yes, you can buy and sell banana peels for various, sometimes exorbitant, prices, but all you get is more banana peels and a few bucks to spend on other Steam games. Not for nothing, but it doesn't get you arrested either.

(For the record, the developers also deny that anything untoward is happening.)

Anyway, as simple (and silly) as this banana click is, a larger update seems to be on the way. 'We've been working on these updates for the past few weeks, preparing the game for future updates. Any constructive feedback would be greatly appreciated."