A game called Banana has been skyrocketing up Steam's most-played list. It has an incredibly, unbelievably simple premise - you click a banana and a number goes up. No animations, no unlocks, nothing. But occasionally you get an item that you can sell on the marketplace, and therein lies the hook.
As reported by Polygon, most of these are worth mere cents. You could sit and click that banana for hours and make less than $1. But bizarrely, there are incredibly rare bananas selling for as much as $1,378.
On the Steam Community Market right now, people are selling bananas for as much as £776.
Unlike Counter-Strike, which often sells skins for ludicrous amounts of money (one cosmetic even sold for over $1 million last week), you don't have to pay anything to get in on the action. Banana is completely free, skins drop for free, and selling on the marketplace is free. So, it's a legal money farm.
While this very simple game is going viral at the moment, a good chunk of its player base are bots. Developer Hery told Polygon that last week, when Banana hit 141,000 players (a number that has since shot up...
