Benji Bananas - Swing through jungle

Experience the ultimate action-adventure game for your Android device – absolutely free! Assume the role of Benji the monkey and swing effortlessly from one vine to another, all while keeping an eye out for lurking dangers in the wilderness. Accumulate bananas to access upgrades, special features, and power-ups.

Key Highlights:

- Immerse yourself in stunning hand-drawn visuals

- Engage in entertaining physics-driven gameplay (maneuver Benji by swinging on ropes)

- Embark on a thrilling journey through diverse landscapes (including ancient temple ruins, cascading waterfalls, and dense jungles)

- Gather fruits like bananas and spicy chilis to enhance your capabilities

- Unleash unique abilities like a jetpack, chili-powered speed boost, and eagle-mounted rides

- Personalize your monkey with various outfits (such as a ninja attire or a gas mask)

- Encounter different types of ropes (vines, serpents, flaming cables, and more)

Don't miss out on this exhilarating opportunity to soar through captivating jungle settings by downloading the game immediately!

Gameplay

Gameplay-wise, not a lot has changed since the early days. You still play as a monkey swinging trees and collecting bananas. There are obstacles in between like spike bushes. Your aim is to keep swinging as long and as far as possible. If you hit the floor of the map, then it’s game over.

As you swing through the map, you collect bananas and score higher. As your progress through the map, it gets harder and harder. You can use the bananas to unlock upgrades and skins for your character. This ties into the whole NFT space thing, but more on that later.

You can also upgrade your character’s physical abilities like getting speed boosts and calling a whole eagle for a ride.

The good part about this whole transition toward the NFT scene is that you can still enjoy the game if you aren’t into the whole crypto and play-to-earn thing. At its base, it is still the mindless rope-slinging game that you loved.

In terms of content, a lot of content is paywalled. Initially, in the free-2-play version you access only one map. Others you can do a trial run of after watching an ad video. Benji Pass holders can access a plethora of new maps and content. This is kind of a bummer for someone that doesn’t want to dabble with the whole NFT thing.

Tokenomics of the game

Benji Bananas’ whole crypto backend is on the Ethereum blockchain. The native token is called PRIMATE and was launched back in April of 2022. PRIMATE is at the heart of the whole Benji Bananas crypto scene. And since Benji Bananas is made by Animoca Brands, the token is swappable with tokens of other games made by Animoca Brands. This includes the SAND token of the SANDBOX crypto game that we reviewed earlier.

What this means is that you can use progress in one game to buy stuff in another game. Which is honestly a pretty neat mechanic.

There are about 2.06 billion primates currently in circulation with plentiful liquidity pool pairings. So you can extract your PRIMATE token for real money whenever you like. At release, the PRIMATE token was at $0.19 per token. But following the FTX crash and overall nastiness in the crypto market. It sits somewhere around $ .011 with a market cap of about $ 2.1 million. These numbers are subject to change, but this is just to give you an idea of the scale of users Benji Bananas has been able to capture.

Play to Earn Potential of Benji Bananas

The play to earn of Benji Bananas revolves around the Benji Pass. This is an ERC-1155 token, that is built on the Ethereum blockchain. Players need to buy the Benji pass to ‘unlock’ the play to earn the potential of the game. So you can’t just start earning just as by downloading the game and playing.

Once you have bought your Benji Pass NFT and verified it. You can start earning PRIMATE tokens via your gameplay. You will also need to link your Apple ID or Google Play account (depending on the platform you are playing on) to your crypto wallet.

Benji Bananas also does a KYC of all the people entering their play to earn regime via the Beni Pass. So you can start earning rewards after your KYC verification process goes through.

You earn PRIMATE tokens for a variety of different things. These factors include:

- The highest level your characters reaches

- The total number of bananas you have collected

- The total games played

- The longest distance you have swung in a single game

All these factors are used to determine how many PRIMATE tokens you get. Animoca Brands also holds seasonal reward events where players with Benji Pass can get PRIMATE tokens in airdrops.