Released by a team of four developers in April 2024, Banana is based on an earlier clicker game titled Egg.

Like Egg, the game's primary purpose is to periodically grant items to players which can be bought and sold on the Steam Marketplace.

Created by an international team of four developers, it was heavily based on an earlier game titled Egg; like Banana, the gameplay consists only an image of an egg which can be clicked, periodically generating Steam items, which consist of reskinned bananas.

[5] The banana items generated by the game have been compared to non-fungible tokens, although differ due to the lack of a blockchain.

[3][6] Due to the extremely minimal gameplay and low computer resource usage, some players have been able to run large numbers of alternate accounts simultaneously to maximize profit.

By June 14, the number of simultaneously active players reached 420,000, and further rose to 700,000 over the following day, becoming the 2nd most played game on Steam (behind Counter-Strike 2).