Over 30,000 people are clicking a picture of a Banana on Steam

Never a dull day on Steam, with there now being a game where all you do is just click a picture of a Banana. Yes, that's it and over 30,000 people are playing it right now.

30,687 at time of writing to be exact, according to SteamDB. Although, playing is perhaps not the right word for this. Loading, clicking a Banana once or twice and then leaving it minimized is probably much more accurate. It's an idle clicker game, one that you're not really supposed to do anything.

So what's the point and why are people doing this? Well, you can thank the Steam Marketplace for that. Inspired by another clicker game called Egg, that has the same idea. The developer even said it's just a worse made version of it on the Steam forum:

It's a free to play game, but it does drop Banana Steam Items every so often and everyone then dumps them onto the Steam Marketplace hoping to make some extra cash, which you can then use to buy Steam games. I had it loaded for only a few minutes and got a fancy looking Dogenana which is worth about £0.13 at time of writing and according to Steam 6,863 were actually sold in the last 24 hours. People are going Bananas over it.

Some of these Bananas are worth a lot like the Crypticnana currently at a lowest listed price of £199.18, and only 25 of them actually exist as items.

It has a Native Linux version, although that didn't actually work for me, but it did work on Proton 9. I'm not suggesting you go play it, because it's ridiculous, but thought it was somewhat amusing to highlight and perhaps you might find it as stupid as I do.