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Steam’s Clicker Game Opens Debate on NFTs and Crypto Gaming — TradingView News
A clicker game on Steam recently became the talk of the town after flipping some of the platform’s most popular games. “Banana” has become a sensation for its NFT-like rewards, which can be sold for over $1,000 on the Steam Marketplace. However, the clicking phenomenon has sparked a debate among members of the crypto community about the state of crypto and web3 gaming.
Peeling the Feel of Steam’s Clicker Game
Banana is an indie game on Steam that involves clicking on the image of a banana to get rewards. While not the first of its kind, its players are rewarded with digital bananas every few hours. Rewards can range from common bananas worth pennies to rare bananas, which can be sold for up to $1,300.
The free-to-play game made headlines after surpassing some of the platform’s most popular titles. Banana overtook Elder Ring and Baldur’s Gate 3 in the most-played games list. The clicker game only came in second, behind Counter-Strike 2.
As of this writing, the game remains the fourth most played game on Steam, with over 344,000 current players and a peak of 578,000 in the last 24 hours. Additionally, it reached an all-time high of 917,000 players earlier this month.
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However, the simplicity of the game has raised some concerns among players. Many believed that the clicker game contained malware that turns devices into cryptocurrency miners. Others wondered if the game was some kind of scam.
Hery, one of Banana’s developers, denied the allegations, telling Polygon that it was “a pretty stupid game” with bananas, not a scam.
Many users also speculated that the game was related to NFTs and cryptocurrencies, as it had a similar feel to NFTs but without the blockchain technology. A member of Banana’s team clarified that “Banana doesn’t want anything to do with crypto.”
They explained that the game had no plans to integrate crypto because it doesn’t “mix well” with Steam. Additionally, they pointed out that it started as “a goofy game to collect bananas on your Steam profile.”
Are Crypto and Web3 Gaming Going Crazy?
While Banana has no plans to integrate with the crypto industry, the game has sparked several conversations within the community, with several members taking the opportunity to discuss its implications for web3 gaming.
One user pointed out the game’s popularity despite its simplicity, arguing that the industry doesn’t need “AAA games” to break through. Several community members agreed, suggesting that there’s a misconception about what kind of games Web3 needs.
Although large, complex action games were seen as the only option, “guys just want to have fun and score points,” said one X user. Apparently, the general feeling was that the industry “made things more complicated than they are.”
Some users believe that Banana and similar games could help with Web3 gaming. The game’s meme quality has been highlighted as a potential catalyst for wider adoption.
Similarly, this week, Avalanche Gaming discussed the implications of Banana on its gamified show. According to Paul Bettner, game developer and co-founder of Playful Studios, Banana could be an escape into the larger world of crypto gaming.
For Bettner, “the behavior that we all enjoy and participate in as degenerates and native users of Web3 and cryptography is, in fact, universal.” In observing the evolution of the Steam clicker phenomenon, the game developer noticed that users were “a bunch of degenerates who don’t know they’re degenerates yet.”
Ultimately, he believes that “people learn to degenerate.” If most of these users knew “what a wallet or a blockchain is, they would realize that they can do it on a 1000x scale on a blockchain.”
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