That game where you click a banana is now so popular it's poised to knock Baldur's Gate 3 off Steam's top 10 most-played games of all time

Banana is a game where you repeatedly click on a banana, and that's about it. If that sounds dull, it is: I downloaded Banana and clicked the banana for a while, and that's pretty much all there is to do. 

But boy, is Banana popular. Since its launch in April, the free-to-play clicker has been steadily racking up massive player counts.

And I do mean massive. As of today, Banana has a peak concurrent player count of 858,915, which is up from 100,000 just over a week ago. Not only is that a huge explosion in players...