Player guide

How to play Banana Game

Move the waiting fruit, drop it onto the pile, and let identical fruit touch. Matching fruit merges automatically. Keep the pile below the red line and use banana recipes to turn crowded boards into high scores.

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Mainu Studio · Reviewed on 17 September 2026

Check a merge before your next run

Choose a fruit and the size of a connected group at one contact check. This is a rule reference, not a physics simulator or a promise that separately dropped fruit will stay together.

Fruit Touching fruit

Result: Banana
Score: 720
Fruit used: 6

A pair can merge before a larger group forms. Six strawberries and four apples are opportunities in a simultaneous contact group, not recipes you can reliably build one ingredient at a time. Two bananas do not merge; three are needed.

The basic loop

Aim: move the fruit left or right while it waits above the board.
Drop: release it normally or hold fast drop when the landing path is clear.
Merge: identical fruit combine as soon as their collision shapes touch.
Recover: spend one shake token to jolt a jammed pile without moving the walls.
Survive: a fruit that remains over the red deadline starts a three-second warning before game over.

New drops are chosen randomly from blueberry, strawberry, kiwi, and grape.

An early Banana Game board showing the red deadline, next fruit, movement buttons, shake button, and fast-drop button — The board before the pile becomes crowded.

Normal fruit chain

Every pair in this chain becomes the fruit immediately to its right.

Blueberry→Strawberry→Kiwi→Grape→Apple→Peach→Pear→Korean Melon→Watermelon→Banana

Special banana recipes

A full special group takes priority over an ordinary pair during the same contact check. If only two strawberries touch, they become a kiwi immediately; they do not wait for four more strawberries. The larger recipe can happen when enough previously separate fruit come together during a drop, shake, or chain reaction. There is no manual hold or delayed-merge mode.

Fruit touching in one connected group	Result	Score
6 Strawberries	1 Banana	720
4 Apples	1 Banana	560
3 Bananas	1 Golden Banana	1,200
2 Golden Bananas	Both disappear	2,000

Two watermelons also create a banana through the normal pair chain.

Pair-merge score values

Pair	Result	Score
2 Blueberries	Strawberry	4
2 Strawberries	Kiwi	10
2 Kiwis	Grape	18
2 Grapes	Apple	28
2 Apples	Peach	42
2 Peaches	Pear	60
2 Pears	Korean Melon	85
2 Korean Melons	Watermelon	130
2 Watermelons	Banana	450

Shake tokens

A run begins with five tokens and one shake costs one token. Merge rewards fill the gray token icon gradually. Bigger results fill it faster: a watermelon contributes 0.5 token, a banana contributes 1 token, and a Golden Banana contributes 3 tokens. The smaller fruit results contribute smaller fractions.

Token progress earned by the fruit created in a merge
Created fruit	Token progress
Strawberry	0.03
Kiwi	0.06
Grape	0.10
Apple	0.15
Peach	0.22
Pear	0.32
Korean melon	0.40
Watermelon	0.50
Banana	1.00
Golden Banana	3.00

For example, two separate merges that each create a watermelon earn 0.50 + 0.50 = one token. The count shows whole tokens; the filling icon shows progress toward the next one. That refill is separate from the red-line warning and is not a countdown. Clearing two Golden Bananas also awards three tokens, using their source type because no new fruit remains.

Shake is strongest when two matching fruit are almost touching or a curved banana is wedged beneath a larger fruit. On a sparse board, saving the token is usually more valuable.

Controls

Action	Touch or mouse	Keyboard	Gamepad
Move aim	Drag the aim area or hold left/right	A / D or Left / Right	D-pad left/right or left stick
Drop	Release the aim or tap the drop control	W or Enter	A
Fast drop	Hold the orange down button	Hold S or Down	Hold D-pad down or right trigger
Shake	Tap the banana button	Space or M	X, Y, or left shoulder
Pause	Tap the pause button	P or Escape	Start, Back, or B
Restart	Use Restart from a menu	R during play	Use the pause or game-over menu

Practical strategy

Keep one landing lane open

A clear route near the center gives small fruit room to reach matching pieces instead of resting on top of the pile.

Use the walls deliberately

Round fruit can roll away from a peak. A controlled wall landing can slow that roll, but packing the wall too tightly leaves no escape route.

Watch connected groups

Six strawberries or four apples only help when the pieces form the touching group needed by the special recipe.

Respect the three-second warning

Once the pile reaches the red line, use an immediate merge or a saved shake. Waiting for a perfect drop often costs the run.