The success of Banana has not gone unnoticed and Steam is filling up with clones, many of which are capable of obtaining good, if not exactly excellent, results. The game mechanics are the same: you have to click to make a counter go up. The economy that regulates these games is identical: by starting them and keeping them active (even if there is no need, given that you get the same results by restarting them after a certain number of hours) you get items that can be sold on the Steam market for a few pennies.
Bananas, cats and eggs
But what games are we talking about? The most advanced Banana clone is definitely Cats, in which you click on some kittens. Here at least there was an effort to insert several images, instead of just one as in Banana. Furthermore, clicks produce simple animations and color changes. Think of how much magnificence it had maximum peak of 56,141 players in the last few hours and currently regularly trades above 40,000, more than titles with a decidedly greater reputation.
Third, but not for gameplay, there’s Egg, which actually came before Banana on the market, but which has recently found a second life thanks to the addition of salable objects. Just think that in the last few hours it recorded a peak of 29,938 players.
The danger, as underlined by many, is that Steam becomes filled with these rubbish games, considering that making them is very easy and that they are based on a monetization model that is difficult to trace.
How many more will we see pop up in the next few days? Hard to say, but at this point, if Valve doesn’t do something, they could end up taking a major chunk of Steam’s users.
