Turing Complete

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Turing Complete is a programming, logic and education game developed and published by LevelHead.
Released on October 02nd 2021 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 5 languages: English, French, German, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 3,568 reviews of which 3,438 were positive and 130 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Turing Complete into these genres:

Programming Logic Education Puzzle Simulation Hacking Automation Building 2D Singleplayer Early Access Sci-fi Difficult Stylized Psychological Horror Sandbox

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Requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7/8/10
Processor: I5
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel UHD 630
Storage: 512 MB available space

MacOS

OS: 11
Processor: Apple Silicon
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Apple Silicon GPU
Storage: 1 GB available space

Linux

OS: 64 bit
Processor: I5
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel UHD 630
Storage: 512 MB available space

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

9.5/10 - some major warnings before you buy: 1. Difficulty: Coming into this game I knew very little about CPU architecture, but I have a strong background in related fields - I'm a C++ developer with experience with electronics (physics bachelor). The difficulty curve was targeted at people with a similar experience level to myself. If you've never touched a low-level programming language, are unfamiliar with logic gates, or don't understand how to represent a custom data type in binary, then expect some serious headaches. 2. All of the teaching in this game is done by practice, and barely anything is explained. Often I would solve a puzzle - yet despite understanding the solution and why it works - I would miss an important concept that the puzzle was supposed to illustrate, leading to big problems with later puzzles. Especially problematic when my solution was a non-standard one. I suggest you look up solutions to every puzzle after you have solved it, to see if you've missed anything. 3. A few (2-3) of the puzzles have terrible descriptions, where it was very unclear what the game wanted me to do. 4. No Puzzle editor! And to make matters worse, nowhere near enough puzzles. Good for racing to the point where you build your computer, bad because just playing through the puzzles in order might cause you to get out of your depth quickly. 5. In specific circumstances the inbuilt debugger is terrible (when the tick count was a factor in the problem, you can't simulate your solution past the point where the error occurs.) Despite these issues, I can't overstate how powerful of a learning tool this is. I've played for 15 hours over two days, and in that time I've built a computer. I'm not sure I've ever learned so much in such a short space of time, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. This game will teach you everything you want to know about machine code, just be aware that to get the most out of it, you need to go off the "main path" so to speak. Supplementary reading - how much depends on your experience level - and a lot of playing around in the sandbox is necessary to get a proper understanding of why you're doing what you're doing.

Sept. 2024

People complain about this game being too difficult. You are literally learning to build a computer from electronical circuits in this game. Did you you expect it to be easy?

July 2024

Does for understanding how CPUs work what Kerbal Space Program does for understanding how rocket science works.

April 2024

My only complaint about this game is that it progresses too quickly in complexity to be a learning tool for beginners. In a the span of a few puzzles you go from learning simple logic to designing adders and a signal counter. This is the kind of progression that would take place over the course of weeks in a class, while thoroughly explaining the logic, but this game has you take that leap after only a few hours of play time with very little explanation. This is definitely geared more towards CS/CPE students looking to practice in a gamified manner, which isn't really an issue- but this game does kind of present itself as being more accessible than it is That being said, this is still an excellent game that I recommend, but with the caviet that total beginners will probably have to spend many hours of research outside the game to really understand whats going on

April 2024

Buying this game was one of the best decisions I ever made. I studied logic gates at university, but the leap from logic gates to a computer always seemed a little too much like magic. Turing complete doesn't give you the answers, it asks you the questions and gets you to answer them yourself. Now I understand. I feel like I have ascended to a new plane of existence.

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16.79€

9.2

3,438

130

Online players

101

Developer

LevelHead

Publisher

LevelHead

Release 02 Oct 2021

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