Banana: Exploring Steam sensation with almost 1 million concurrent players

Banana currently sits top of the list of most-played games on Steam at the time of writing, with a remarkable 805,415 number of players enjoying clicking on a picture of the eponymous fruit. The gameplay is mostly just that - you launch the game, click on the yellow fruit, and the number goes up. When you go long enough (every three hours), another banana will appear that can be traded or sold on the Steam market. Lucky players might also get a different colored one.

While it may sound dull, the clicker title does boast an all-time peak of almost a million players, putting it above heavy hitters like Hogwarts Legacy and Baldur's Gate 3.

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Banana has an all-time concurrent player peak of 917,272 currently on Steam

According to SteamDB, Banana's all-time concurrent player peak is 917,272. The current live count also indicates that players are not getting tired of merely clicking on the fruit on the screen.

Clicking on (Image via Sky)

The simple clicker game is in quite illustrious company. The top most played Steam games list with reference to all-time peaks is as follows:

Top 10 most-played games on Steam currently

1. PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS - 3,257,248
2. Palworld - 2,101,867
3. Counter-Strike 2 - 1,818,773
4. Lost Ark - 1,325,305
5. Dota 2 - 1,295,114
6. Cyberpunk 2077 - 1,054,388
7. Elden Ring - 953,426
8. Banana - 917,272
9. New World - 913,634
10. Hogwarts Legacy - 879,308

There are a variety of bananas available from the game's Steam store:

• Disconana
• Shinobinana
• Biosnana
• Blackholenana

Steam Market top-sellers (Image via Steam)

On the Steam market, the top-sellers are:

1. Crypticnana - $1709.64 USD
2. Sad Hamster Banana - $911.44 USD
3. Cybernana - $389.00 USD
4. Shiny Banana - $220.00 USD
5. dognana - $144.05 USD
6. Golden Banana - $134.78 USD
7. Galaxynana - $126.58 USD
8. Picklenana - $123.21 USD
9. test - $92.23 USD
10. OG Banana - $92.00 USD

The developers state that the designs "are made with community effort and inspiration," allowing players to participate in the process and impact the designs that will be a part of the game.

The simplistic nature of its gameplay, the interesting types available, and the addictive loop have all pushed Banana to become a Steam sensation.