Turing Complete
Worth it · Strategy · 2021 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $15.91.
- Length
- 16.6h
- Value
- $1.20/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Next sale
- Autumn Sale, Oct 1 to 8
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 10% ($17.99)
- Last discount ended
- 10 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel UHD 630, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
October 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $13.99. It has been discounted 10 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 25 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago. The math puts its BANGER price at $15.91. The record reaches that level 7 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, TIS-100 ($6.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Human Resource Machine ($14.99, scores 74).
6 of the 522 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,848 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,378 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 411 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 16.6 hours. Doing everything runs 113, 6.8 times as long.
The drop-off
20% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
About 300 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
fantastic game, it does a great job of providing a guided path from logic gates to general computation. there are a few gaps where it simplifies some concepts but overall it gave me a much better picture of computing fundamentals that i missed in college. some of the UX could also be a little smoother but overall i would highly recommend picking this up. going from logic gates to solving algorithm problems in...
Learned more from this game than 4 years of college! Side note, my degree was unrelated to computer science.
I make a 32 bit ALU without looking it up. I start screaming and whooping, making the noises one might expect to hear from a chimpanzee that has torn open the neck of its rival. My wife asks me what's going on. I told her I am happy about my achievement in a game. She looks and says that this is not a game, it is homework assignments. This is a messed up game to get addicted to.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Turing Complete scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1444480/turing-completeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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