Banana news & patch notes

The wait is over - the Original Soundtrack is now available on Steam!

Every track that scored your runs, your wins, and those last-second saves is now yours to own. From the loop you didn't notice was stuck in your head to the big-moment themes, the full soundtrack is ready to play anywhere, anytime.

🎁 A Gift for OST Owners - After 48 Hours

To celebrate the release, every player who owns the Original Soundtrack will receive a special drop 48 hours after launch. Own the OST, log in, and it's yours - no grind required.

Here's how it works:

- Open your drop to reveal an OST Case. The Case itself is non-tradable and non-marketable - it's yours to keep and open.

- Open the OST Case to receive an "OSTnana" - and this one is fully tradable and marketable. Trade it, sell it, or show it off on the Community Market.

One drop, one Case, one OSTnana - for every soundtrack owner. 🍌

Grab the soundtrack now on Steam to qualify, and watch for your drop in 48 hours. Thanks for listening!

\\- The Banana Team

Banana Game 1.2.17

New

• New in-game Help system: tap the "?" buttons across the game for plain-language explainers covering 23 systems (clicker, builders, inventory, exchange, capsules, and more).

Improved

• Cleaned up the Settings menu layout
• Filter section headers now line up with their options, and filter sections are packed closer together. (BETA)
• De-Christmased the game UI & Well Of The Past.
• Wishing Well: bigger well, a clearer help button, and large gold amounts now show as 96 797 / 1.2M.
• Drop notifications now stay on screen a little longer (7 seconds) so they're easier to read.

Fixed

• Item descriptions now display apostrophes and quotes correctly instead of raw character codes.
• Game startup loading screen now dismisses correctly, including when Steam isn't running.
• The "Game saved" popup can now be closed by clicking it or its X button, no longer pops every time you tab away, and the brief alt-tab freeze is gone.
• Fixed Collections/Settings/Filters menus showing leftover seasonal decorations.
• Fixed issue on exchanging sometimes would throw error.
• Fixed issue where after exchanging the number of bananas in the inventory would not update.

Performance

• Frame-time and allocation improvements on countdown timers.

Misc

• Adds new bananas for the new season
• Really fixes the issue on the toggling of the video/animated bananas in the inventory (re-toggle them again!)
• Fixes an issue that made the start of the game even slower than expected.

Fixes:

• Fixed issue that made consoles reset/limit the total amount to 100
• Fixed issue where Linux runtime wouldn't properly start the game
• Fixes issue on upgrades beeing too powerful, instead of dupplicating the base value it would multiply the already-multiplied rate.
• Fixes issue on upgrades appearing with the value of the first upgrade value rather than the correct one, example: 3rd upgrade would be 1 000 000 but was showing 100.

Bug Fixes

Improvements

• Save files now include timestamps so the game always knows which copy of your progress is newest.
• The one-time fix that corrects corrupted balances is now properly gated — it runs once and never fires again, instead of re-checking on every single load.

Misc

• Introduced a migration marker to prevent the builder-correction pass from looping after it's already run.
• Save format comparisons now normalize old-format vs. new-format scale before deciding which save file wins.

• Adds new bananas for events

• Updates UI to remove part of the christmas theme

• Updates music to the non-christmas themed one

• The Banana Team

• Adds new banana for limited time dropping (48 hours)

• 13 new banana skins added to the collection — go check your drops!

• 200+ banana skin images optimized — We've compressed a ton of item images to make the game lighter and faster to download
• Fixed display issues on some item images and videos that weren't loading properly

• New Event Shop look - We're preparing a fresh UI for the Event Shop with currency icons, labels, and a cleaner layout for the upcoming event. Stay tuned!
• Reward notifications now properly show the currency name and correct singular/plural wording (no more "1 eggs" moments)
• Event popups are now fetched live from the server, meaning new events can show up without needing a game update

• New Inventory Autoplay toggle in Settings — control whether item animations play automatically
• Fixed snow particles not properly cleaning up when toggled off in Settings

• Fixed connection issues for some players — Switched to using Steam's own network to communicate with our servers, so if you were getting errors or couldn't connect before, this should fix it
• Your bananas and calories are now safer than ever — added a fallback save to local storage in case Steam Cloud hiccups
• Improved network connection reliability — better timeout handling and fewer random disconnects
• Fixed issues with the item exchange process occasionally failing
• Notification text is now easier to read with better font sizes and positioning
• Cleaned up item descriptions showing in Steam inventory

UI

• Fixes issue on UI not scalling properly with the user's resolution.

Patch Notes -v1.1.628

Localization - Full 13-Language Support

• The game is now fully localized into 13 languages: English, Portuguese (European), Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Ukrainian, Dutch, Turkish, Kazakh, Polish, and Belarusian.
• The game automatically detects your operating system language on first launch and applies it.
• Most UI labels, tooltips, builder names, inventory actions, settings menus, exchange panels, shop messages, drop timers, workshop text, and notification alerts are now properly translated. (if any is missing please tell us where!)
• Added new Noto Sans SC font for improved Chinese text rendering and a Noto Sans variable font for better multi-language layout.

Inventory

• Favorites: You can now mark inventory items as favorites — favorites are pinned to the top of your inventory and persist between sessions.
• Improved page navigation - switching pages is faster thanks to a sorted rendering cache.
• Added cross-page drag-and-drop support — dragging an item near the edge of the inventory will flip the page automatically so you can drop it anywhere.

Capsules

• Added new Planetary Capsule 1.
• Fixed an issue where capsule prize previews were not showing correctly.

Builders

• Fixed the builder cost growth multiplier - corrected from 1.25x to 1.15x per unit. Builders now cost less at high quantities, matching the intended balance.
• Fixed upgrade unlock milestones so they correctly track your builder level progression.

Settings

• Language and resolution dropdowns in Settings now scroll to your currently selected option when opened.
• Added an Inventory Auto-Play toggle in Settings - lets you turn banana skin animation videos on or off.

Menus & UI

• Click animations and floating numbers now appear in the correct position on screen regardless of your resolution or window mode.
• Fixed font sizes and sprite rendering in several UI elements.
• Removed the Exchange Event menu button.
• Removed the Advent Calendar menu button.
• Removed the Event Shop.

Today's patch is a change in how we log-in users into our back-end.

It should fix some issues people have been having on not getting the Advent Calendar & the Valentine's Shop throwing errors and having to restart the game.

Any issues just reply to this!

- The Banana Team

Staring today till the end of the Lucky Love event, Paper hearts will have double the value !

good luck getting those last bananas this week!

• Finally - Fixes issue on too many heart popups appearing

• Updates timer in which the popup appears after failing to claim one (1 minute if u miss it)

Sorry for the delay! - The Banana Team

• Fixes issue on popup hearts not appearing after the first time it's missed.

- The Banana Team

Hello Bananas!

Today we have some bugfixes regarding last night's update!

• Fixes issue on popup heart being able to be clicked/claimed outside of it's scope.

• Fixes issue on error message appearing after going into inventory multiple times

• Updates game logic to verify whether it can connect to the server or not

  • Developer's Note: If you cannot connect to our server, you won't be able to claim popups, exchange items, access advent calendar and store your data/progress.

• Adds toggle button for Snow Particles in Settings.

• Fixes issue on popup heart timer being incorrectly shown/it would show/appear in a different time

  • Developer's Note: After the next popup the timer should be fixed, since the latest claimed item is already saved in the user's game.

• Removes refresh button from the inventory panel

- The Banana Team

Lucky Love event shop is LIVE! Love is in the air... and so are Paper Hearts ! Celebrate Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year Early with our special two-week crossover event! Duration: Feb 9 - Feb 23 How to Collect: Paper Hearts will popup on your screen every 3-5 minutes. Click them to snag hearts before they vanish! 1 (45%) 2 (35%) 3 (15%) 5 (5% - jackpot!) Event Shop: Spend hearts on five exclusive Bananas, three of them animated!

50 - Heartstringnana (Uncommon)

100 - LuckyRibbonnana (Rare)

175 - JadeHeartnana (Ultra Rare, animated)

275 - ForeverLovenana (Epic, animated)

400 - DragonsLucknana (Legendary, animated)

May fortune and love guide your clicks! 恭喜发财!

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• Adds missing filters for the inventory

• Adds a new banana - New Year 2026

• Fixes issue on Well Of The Past would initialize automatically instead of the normal UI

• Fixes issue on Advent Calendar background not stretching

• Enables all Advent Calendar rewards for everyone

- The Banana Team

Advent calendar fixed, and you can claim everything you missed as well We're still rolling out fixes for the claimed missing bananas Exchange also fixed We're also working on some small QoL changes and preparing for Chinese New Year and Valentine New Collection and Capsule soon

Happy New Year to Everyone

From all of us at Banana, we wish you all the best for the year ahead. To kick things off properly, on January 6th we’re launching our New Year Event, featuring a New Year drop running for a full week, I know, a bit late but we're all catching a break here To make up for some holiday timing chaos, we’re also introducing a delayed Christmas Well of the Past, and Monkey returning alongside a special Well-exclusive drop, plus an extra drop running alongside normal drops until the end of the first week of 2026. Before we move forward, let’s take a moment to look back at what this year actually looked like for Banana January

• We kicked off the year with a Chinese New Year event, featuring Papercutnana and Golden Papercutnana. This brought a clean, festive start and set the tone for themed drops moving forward.

February

• We finally got to show off our love outside of the game and banana obsession with the release of Trading Cards, Badges, Emotes, and Profile Backgrounds.

• Sorry Valentines

March

• The first teasers for the Well of the Past appeared.

• Behind the scenes, we pushed an internal stats update and started openly talking about a visual upgrade direction for the game.

April A massive month.

• Birthday Event with brand-new gameplay via Builders and CPS

• Full introduction of the Well of the Past and the Sage Monkey

• Achievements were added

• UI, logo, and visual identity received a full revamp

• New music was introduced

• This month marked a real shift from “clicker” toward something deeper.

May

• The Animations Update landed, giving the game more life, polish, and personality.

June

• We launched the Blog, sharing community updates and team insights.

• Capsules became purchasable through the store.

• A Feature Board was introduced, letting the community vote directly on future plans and priorities.

July

• We started talking openly about:

• Login streaks and rewards

• A new capsule teased

• Early code teasers

• And for the first time, the fail percentage on inventory exchanges

August

• A brand-new Elemental-themed capsule joined the lineup.

October to December Things got interesting.

• We launched the Halloween Event, which transitioned into what became our longest-running event to date:

  Banana Carving Contest 2025: Nightmare Before Christmas Edition

• Alongside this, the fail percentage on trade-ups was fully added to the game.

December

• The Carving Event continued

• The Christmas Event went live

• Advent Calendars ran both in-game and on Discord, closing out the year with daily surprises and community participation

• We also saw the occasional article pop up here and there. Nothing huge, but always appreciated.

Special Thanks to: Bolt for the music Minerva, Deko, and AdolfoSolar for the art Everyone who participated in the Carving Event Everyone who joined in on the Advent Calendar events And of course, thank you to the players and community members who stuck with Banana through updates, experiments, changes, and long-term plans. As we move into the new year, we’re actively looking forward to:

• The Prestige System

• Global Quests

• Leaderboards

• Minigames with rewards and bragging rights

• More reasons to actually do things with your bananas

Thank you all for being part of this journey so far Here’s to another year of Banana. If we forgot anything, you know the drill. Let us know.



Starting Today



You will be able to start the game and be greeted with a warm holiday welcome...

or rather cold in this case 



We got a tiny new easter egg for you to enjoy and new warm music to chill to 



you will also see a new button that once clicked will take you to our in game advent calendar !



You can go there daily and claim an exclusive advent calendar banana ! 

These bananas will only be available during these 24 days



if you miss a day you will NOT be able to claim it afterwards so please be sure to collect them every day 



we have something small for the week of Christmas planned as well 



sorry for the delay and happy holidays 

We're a bit late but here is the Autumn drop pool update ! We'll be updating this more frequently and have this season overlap with the winter one to make up for it Common

• Added Cleaningbrushnana

• Added Towelracknana

Uncommon

• Added Paintsetnana

• Added Mousepadnana

Rare

• Added Licensenana

• Added Whalefinnana

Ultrarare

• Added Bitingabanana

Epic

• Added Happypixelnana

Legendary

• Added Bluescreennana

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• Fixes issue on exchanges not being counted towards the achievement

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• Fixes issue on Mood Capsule Collection resulting in an error rather than giving a banana

- The Banana Team

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• Changes the animation for the Inventory to hide before the exchange appears.

• Removes hidden inventory when exchange is visible - This optimizes substantially CPU usage.

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• Fixes issue on some bananas not being able to be clicked.

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• We've added the capsules to be purchasable in-game, where you can select between 1 and 20 to purchase from.

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• Removes some unnecessary files & folders that were cluttering the game (~250 MB reduction).

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• We know there's been issues with exchanging, where you try to exchange and then your items don't seem to get used OR there's too many errors on "Please try again later", we're working on it!

- The Banana Team

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• Added a new theme for halloween

• Added a new background music for halloween

• Updated every UI to match the halloween theme

• Added tooltips for every button with a description of what it does, so people can learn what each thing does

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• Updated the full scene UI for a spooky vibe

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• Adds a new system that automatically fixes everyone's stacks if they exceed 60k quantity

  • Developer Note: Since the Steamworks SDK only allows a "short" integer value for the quantity variable, we had unstack the items automatically to prevent some items of having negative values or overall wrong values

• Fixes visualization on some bananas & items that would sometimes show a negative value

• "Show on market" button now opens within the Steam Overlay

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• Adds a limit of stacking items to 60 000 per stack. If a user has any item quantity that exceeds this value (more closer to 65 000) some quantities might appear wrong, so a restart in the game should fix it.

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• Updates the exchange system to utilize a % fail rate as follows:

  • Normal -> Common = 75% Success rate & 25% fail rate

  • Common -> Uncommon = 80% Success rate & 20% fail rate

  • Uncommon -> Rare = 85% Success rate & 15% fail rate

  • Rare -> Epic = 90% Success rate & 10% fail rate

  • Epic -> Ultra Rare = 95% Success rate & 5% fail rate

  • Ultra Rare -> Legendary = 100% Success rate

• Adds a new ability of using and mixing collections!!

  • Note: Only bananas that drop can be traded up with other bananas that also drop. You cannot trade up dropped bananas with capsule bananas.

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• Fixes an issue that caused the drop timer to reset and stay in loop checking every 3 minutes after a person just got a drop.

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• Added the ability to press "ESC" button to go back in the menu's or to close them, to make it easier and faster to move around.

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• Fixes an issue where the drop pool list would duplicate

• Fixes an issue where the drop pool list would not reopen after closing

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• Feedback button now opens within the Steam Overlay

• Item shop button now opens within the Steam Overlay

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• Workshop button now opens within the Steam Overlay

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• Adds a new Login Streaks feature (disabled in production)

• Adds a new Item Shop panel in-game (hidden for now)

- The Banana Team

Banana Spookfest 2025!

Happy (late) Halloween from everyone at Banana!

The spookiest time of the year has returned and so have the cursed bananas...

The game has been updated with everything you need to send chills down your spine and make your screen glow in eerie orange and purple.

Prepare yourself for the Banana Spookfest 2025!

What’s New In-Game?

Full Halloween overhaul , dark, moody, and full of haunting details.

New music to set the perfect creepy vibe.

Spooky animations

A brand new welcome screen to greet you with spooky energy.

Limited-Time Halloween Bananas

This year, three new haunted bananas join the party!

• Hauntedcemeterynana

Drops alongside your normal bananas for the next week only!

• Hauntsiclenana

Emerging straight from the Well of the Past for a week while exchanging, don’t miss it!

• Autumnnana

A seasonal special, dropping naturally until the end of November alongside the normal drops!

Once time’s up, they vanish like ghosts at dawn.

BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE !

Banana Carving Contest 2025: Nightmare Before Christmas Edition

Alright… we messed up the dates a little, but we’re turning it into something even better.

Last year’s carving event started October 1st, this year, we’re fusing Halloween and Christmas into one!

Starts: October 31st

Ends: December 25th

That’s right, carve your bananas through the spooky season and into the holidays! more info about the carving event can be found in our discord

We are aware that people have been asking for the new season collection and we hear you, we're almost done with the Autumn one and have some new special goodies in place for everyone in the meantime :

INFO ABOUT DAILY LOGIN STREAKS AND REWARDS SOON IN GAME!

You read that right, daily login streaks and rewards will be added to the game soon, from then on if you log in to banana daily you are able to get free rewards on top of the already free daily drops , and for those who are dedicated there are even more surprises at the end of each week