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Jordan Gerblick

If it goes viral on Steam, it'll get cloned: Wildly popular banana clicker, currently beating Elden Ring by Steam players, spawns apple and melon competitors

Banana game.

"Friday energy" is a phrase we use here in the GR+ office to indicate the orderly, coherent flow of work conversation officially degrading into chaos, the result of five full days of sustained professionalism finally taking its toll. Well, this story has Friday energy, so buckle up kids.

Banana is a free "idle clicker" where you slam your left click button into a jpeg of a banana over and over and get a new banana every three hours to add to your Steam collection for your effort. You do nothing else in Banana except click bananas, and yet astoundingly, at the time of writing, Banana is the third most played game on Steam according to this official chart. It even beats Elden Ring, which just got its massively popular Shadow of the Erdtree DLC less than two weeks ago.

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