while True: learn()
Worth it · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $12.99. Typically $8.31 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.94/hr
- ReviewsS
- 91% of 8,278
- Critics
- 73 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.7h
- To 100%
- 14.1h 2.1x the story
- Achievements
- 31
Price and sales
- Sales
- 71 on record
- Typical cut
- 31% off
- Steam low
- $5.59 December 2018
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 22 now
- Cheaper than
- 23% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
93% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
71 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 31 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 4 percent. It is pricier than 77 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 Main Assembly ($3.99, scores 54).
More about while True: learn()
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 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,114 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This game is great. Some seem really simple to solve and others take a great while.
1 more review, not recommended
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...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
while True: learn() scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.