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Turing Complete
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“This Game could easily being used in every computer science course of study. I, for myself, have a degree in technical computer science and this game has many of the knowledge we learned in one course. Also it is very entertaining. On top it teaches you very subtle a very good…”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs played“This game is super cool. Actually, it's rather a 'build your own computer from scratch' simulator. And not only build, but organically figure out how to program this computer, and what, basically, is a program. You clearly will be able to see how complexity of systems bursts,…”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“As a long time advocate of computer architecture education, I am sad to leave a negative review of this amazing game. I have come back to play this game over many years only to be more frustrated every time I return. I will summarize what I love about the game (and…”
— a player, Steam review · 142 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:39 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Turing Complete 2 patch notes
Features and changes New and powerful assembler system added Almost all components now support widths between 2 and 64 A powerful new screen replaces the old screens. It supports all resolutions betwe
Breaking update upcoming
The new version of Turing Complete will arrive very soon. It includes new features such as 100x faster simulation speed, support for variable width components, a powerful new assembler system and much
Turing Complete 2.0 status update
I have been holding out on writing a new post until the 2.0 patch was finished, but it has been too long, so here is a status update. The good news is that you can play the 2.0 alpha already. Right cl
Where is the patch?
A lot of really hard work has gone into the next upcoming patch. It has taken a long time to get this one ready though (and it still isn't done yet), so some new players are asking if the game is aban
Verilog export added
This update brings a verilog exporter to the game. Verilog is an industry standard hardware description language. With your favorite architecture exported to verilog format, you can theoretically simu
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Programming · Logic · Education · Puzzle · Simulation · Hacking · Automation · Building · Singleplayer · 2D · Early Access · Sci-fi (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America |
| Achievements | 15 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://turingcomplete.game |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: 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