Banana__Cucumber fake / scam?

[Yoshi]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3015610/Banana__Cucumber/

[Glitched Serpent]

its the same as banana, this type of game where its not really about gameplay but having a sort of "NFT" for the steam market are starting to show up more since banana was made and a few Youtubers have done vids on it

[Glitched Serpent]

there is also egg clicker and im sure more are bound to be made

[MonkehMaster]

both these games are likely by the same "developer", the store page for this game has changed/edited its "developer/publisher" names, since the youtube videos have come out about it, but not on the cucumber/banana" game.

are there others under different game titles, or the same "dev" or under different "dev" account names? might be but im not bothering to look into it.

all off which (on both games) are fake developer/publisher names.

also to note, the "dev" account went from being a "dev" account, to a non-dev account after the video started popping up, not sure why one would do that, but it just makes it more suspect imo.

i first noticed this game on someone profile as a recently played game, then seen the devs comments (which seemed to me as odd comments) and the as far as i have seen has only made comments on this game, but not the "cucumber/banana" game, looked at the dev profile and seen both games on devs account, seen the inventories, etc... which lead me to even bother looking at this stuff in the first place.

also to mention the possible copyright images on certain bananas, that are currently being quickly changed.

in any case, im not sure why steam allows this stuff to happen or be reviewed and allowed through the review process....

not to mention which isnt related, all the insanely priced games that have cropped up in the past or recently, that are being sold for upwards of $1000's or even "millions" of dollars.

or games being mentioned, or even fake games being sold (.99 cent idler/clicker games) that do literally nothing (some of which i have seen, only show you a blank screen with a word on it or other similar things and zero gameplay, or "clicking"), of which is not only on steam for reviewing and allowing on steam, but "gamers" who buy or/install and play these things, which enable the people who push the games on steam to snag up free money.

also to note, seeing other games like (on the topic of this and OP's mentioned game)... (already mentioned banana, banana & cucumber), Lass ich Sliden, egg, catch it, Colormeleons, Slymes, #monstercakes, Professor Watts Memory Match: Cats, (either free or paid games) and many more i cant be bothered to find and name, with the same type of skin/item schemes, made for the purpose of buying/selling on the steam market and have little to no gameplay.

that all said, who knows what is going on here with these games and personally i dont really care, as i wouldnt bother even thinking off installing games like these, i mean it was suspect just by looking at it and seeing there is zero gameplay involved and loaded with items made for the purpose of buying/selling on the steam market, i basically had a general gist of what was going on here from the start.

in the end, best to let steam deal with whatever is going on here and not fill the forum with arguing/drama/etc..

[Glitched Serpent]

Originally posted by MonkehMaster:

both these games are likely by the same "developer", the store page for this game has changed/edited its "developer/publisher" names, since the youtube videos have come out about it, but not on the cucumber/banana" game.

are there others under different game titles, or the same "dev" or under different "dev" account names? might be but im not bothering to look into it.

all off which (on both games) are fake developer/publisher names.

also to note, the "dev" account went from being a "dev" account, to a non-dev account after the video started popping up, not sure why one would do that, but it just makes it more suspect imo.

i first noticed this game on someone profile as a recently played game, then seen the devs comments (which seemed to me as odd comments) and the as far as i have seen has only made comments on this game, but not the "cucumber/banana" game, looked at the dev profile and seen both games on devs account, seen the inventories, etc... which lead me to even bother looking at this stuff in the first place.

also to mention the possible copyright images on certain bananas, that are currently being quickly changed.

in any case, im not sure why steam allows this stuff to happen or be reviewed and allowed through the review process....

not to mention which isnt related, all the insanely priced games that have cropped up in the past or recently, that are being sold for upwards of $1000's or even "millions" of dollars.

or games being mentioned, or even fake games being sold (.99 cent idler/clicker games) that do literally nothing (some of which i have seen, only show you a blank screen with a word on it or other similar things and zero gameplay, or "clicking"), of which is not only on steam for reviewing and allowing on steam, but "gamers" who buy or/install and play these things, which enable the people who push the games on steam to snag up free money.

also to note, seeing other games like (on the topic of this and OP's mentioned game)... (already mentioned banana, banana & cucumber), Lass ich Sliden, egg, catch it, Colormeleons, Slymes, #monstercakes, Professor Watts Memory Match: Cats, (either free or paid games) and many more i cant be bothered to find and name, with the same type of skin/item schemes, made for the purpose of buying/selling on the steam market and have little to no gameplay.

that all said, who knows what is going on here with these games and personally i dont really care, as i wouldnt bother even thinking off installing games like these, i mean it was suspect just by looking at it and seeing there is zero gameplay involved and loaded with items made for the purpose of buying/selling on the steam market, i basically had a general gist of what was going on here from the start.

in the end, best to let steam deal with whatever is going on here and not fill the forum with arguing/drama/etc..

you say about games being sold that are fake games, there is legit a game called "nothing" the entire gameplay is to press start and not touch your PC at all while a timer counts up, and "ends" if u do anything from a key press to moving your mouse, and then they released multipler for it. do nothing with your friends

[SpinyNerd]

I have successfully sold a non-zero amount of cucumbers. Its like a worse version of Banana. I actually do recommend it because you can have both games up simultaneously.

Here is the full list of games that you can idle in to get junk to sell that I discovered so far:
- Egg
- Banana
- Cucumber
- Cats
- Team Fortress 2

[Mr. Buldops]

does it take up alot of processor power for you? the only time ive seen my pc chug then crash, was when i played banana and killing floor 2 at the same time

[FireNinja474]

Originally posted by MonkehMaster:

also to mention the possible copyright images on certain bananas, that are currently being quickly changed.

Likely stock images or random ones the developer took from an internet search.

in any case, im not sure why steam allows this stuff to happen or be reviewed and allowed through the review process....

Maybe the game does not technically break any rules.

This is getting off topic but not too long ago there was a game published that was about sexualising gore and death. Somebody at steam had to review and approve it.

not to mention which isnt related, all the insanely priced games that have cropped up in the past or recently, that are being sold for upwards of $1000's or even "millions" of dollars.

or games being mentioned, or even fake games being sold (.99 cent idler/clicker games) that do literally nothing

It's likely that at least some of these are published for the purpose of money laundering or to enable dealing drugs.

seeing there is zero gameplay involved and loaded with items made for the purpose of buying/selling on the steam market, i basically had a general gist of what was going on here from the start.

These types of games were inevitable. People like to collect stuff and the item marketplace exists to carter to that. Kind of similarly there are games that award hundreds of achievements.

[ArielSan]

I have another question. Is topic starter advertiser of scam?

[Yoshi]

nope. i wonder why you ask.

[ArielSan]

You left a link here. It's not a scam then?

[Yoshi]

Originally posted by ArielSan:

You left a link here. It's not a scam then?

how else should i provide any source of information?

[Knee]

only problem i can see valve taking action on is this will massively devalue the steam market as a whole

[Yoshi]

Originally posted by Knee:

only problem i can see valve taking action on is this will massively devalue the steam market as a whole

its a steam feature... many games already have implemented ingame drops and shop items... noone cared until now...

[AdahnGorion]

It wil die out within a month.