You Are Not a Banana: Better Edition

You Are Not a Banana: Better Edition

Brian Cullen · 2015 · Exploration, Puzzle, 2D, Top-Down, Minigames

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Mostly Positive76% · 66 📉 Recent reviews down 68%
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About You Are Not a Banana: Better Edition

You Are Not a Banana is set in everyday life and has a sprinkle of imagination and humor. The audiovisuals seek to evoke nostalgia for the 80s and 90s. This short form experimental game unfolds as a sequence of thought provoking events and surprises. This game also comes with a free catchy chiptune soundtrack.

BETTER EDITION FEATURES
• Rebuilt the entire game from the ground up : )
• 25 unique Steam achievements
• Autosave, manual save options, and instant checkpoint loading
• Revamped menus and UI (such separate music and sfx volume controls)
• Lots of secrets and hidden story events
• Improved minigames
• More fluid movement and interactions
• New dynamic lighting system
• Revamped animations and graphics (pixel AA filtering and widescreen assets)
• Revamped controls and new moves - such as run and search inventory : )
• 50% funnier jokes

KEY FEATURES
• Free original soundtrack (7 chiptune mp3s plus a remix by German techno maestro Remute)
• HD pixel art graphics
• Dynamic Fmod sound and music
• Sound based puzzles
• Surreal mini games

SPECIAL FEATURES
• Play as a banana!
• Don't get lost in the infinite graveyard!
• Avoid dying in your sleep!
• And for the love of Hades, find your way home before the milk turns sour!

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Apr 6, 2024
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Recommended Feb 19, 2024
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4 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 21, 2023
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand I desperately needed to ensure I could continue providing. Upon learning the severity of the self-inflicted damage, I became almost suicidal. Keep in mind that just a few months before this, I was the happiest man, with no history of depression or anxiety. I had never experienced anger outbursts, nor was I the type to break down and cry, but I was in a tough situation that truly prevented me from seeing the light on the other side. With nothing better to do, I looked for a game I could play WITH ONE HAND while recovering. Somehow, I stumbled upon this game and read some of the comments. I decided it was worth a try... I must admit I didn't beat the game, nor did I play as much as some of y…
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 11, 2026
Pros for this game is that it successfully captures surrealist humor and I find it to be quite fun in that regard, even if the story is pretty short and simple. My cons are the the challenge portions of this game which make it a bit of a slog to go through when I'm playing through again to get achievements. Definitely of its time and comes across as somebody's first project when going into game making and programming.
Recommended Dec 5, 2025
If you are interested in short weird games, this is for you. Also nice achievements to hunt. Obviously this isn't everyones cup of tea ☕
Recommended May 14, 2024
A collection of various weird ideas, minigames etc... Somehow it´s dumb... but yet it is pretty entertaining, As the guy in Robocop says: I´d buy that for a Dollar.

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