while True: learn()
Worth it · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.79.
- Length
- 6.7h
- Value
- $1.16/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
You're a programmer. Your cat is a better one. Solve visual puzzles built from real machine learning ideas, from decision trees to neural networks, to create a cat-to-human translator. Take freelance jobs, upgrade your rig, gamble on startups, dress up the cat. No coding required, curiosity is.
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
December 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $5.59. 70 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 31 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $7.79 at 40 percent off still sits 39 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 71. With it, 79.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SHENZHEN I/O ($14.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Human Resource Machine ($14.99, scores 74).
73 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 700 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 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 2,862 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,321 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 1,937 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
6.7 hours to finish it, 14 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
At 6.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
93% start to 2% 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 11 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This game is great. Some seem really simple to solve and others take a great while.
In no way it is programming, I wouldn't even call it a puzzle, since most of the difficulty usually comes from balancing the outputs so you get a very specific solution. Plus some parts of the hidden ingame logic seem to be broken, you can easily get insane profits from startups by using 1 singular node, without bothering to meet any criteria. If you want to min max outputs I would rather play upload labs, the good...
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Cite this score
while True: learn() scores 79/100 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/619150/while-true-learnReviews 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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