Great on Frame: Every Steam Frame Verified Game, Tracked

Last updated: September 14, 2026

Part of our Steam Frame hub. For the launch picture, see the release date tracker and price tracker, the full spec sheet, and a guide to what games run on it.

Great on Frame is Valve's curated Steam section for games certified to run well on the Steam Frame headset, the VR sibling of the Great on Deck label that shaped Steam Deck buying for four years. The page went live in mid July 2026 with eight titles and reported 131 matches on September 14, the day the Steam Frame launched, more than a sixteenfold increase in nine weeks. Most of that growth is flatscreen catalog games rather than native VR, and Valve's own The Lab lost its certification along the way. This page tracks the confirmed titles, what the certification actually requires, and every change as Valve keeps filling the shelves after launch. One gap stands out on day one: Half-Life: Alyx comes with every Steam Frame, yet it is not on the list.

The Great on Frame list, and how fast it grew

Valve's page reported 131 matches on September 14, 2026, launch day. It launched with five titles the week of July 13, reached eight within a day, sat around 42 by late July, passed 50 on August 3, hit 65 on August 10, 89 on August 24, 98 on August 27, 117 on September 6, 121 on September 8, 130 on September 11, and is at 131 now, with The Thrill of the Fight 2 the launch-day addition. You can confirm the running total yourself by appending frame_compatibility=3 to a Steam store search, which is how the figures on this page are taken. What changed most recently is the composition rather than the count: Beat Saber, Job Simulator, Walkabout Mini Golf VR, Pistol Whip, Synth Riders, Red Matter 2, Moss II VR and all three I Expect You To Die games are now certified, which is a meaningful shift from a list once dominated by Valve demos and flatscreen catalog titles.

Valve does not publish a plain-text index of the catalog, and the storefront grid loads in pages, so the table below covers the titles VR.org has individually confirmed rather than all 131. The remainder are being added as they are verified.

What the badge actually certifies

Great on Frame is the shop window for the Steam Frame Verified program Valve announced at GDC 2026, though the bar has moved since. A standalone VR title has to hold at least 72 frames per second at 1728x1728 per eye on the headset's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Valve originally set that number at 90 and revised the published requirement down without an announcement. Rendering below 1440x1440 fails outright and earns an Unsupported badge. The reasoning behind having a floor at all is physiological rather than cosmetic: on a Steam Deck a frame dip is an annoyance, but in a headset it is a fast route to motion sickness. The badge is Valve personally vouching that a game will not make you queasy.

Flatscreen games have their own track: at least 720p at 30 FPS on-device, a working default control scheme, and full support for the Frame controllers, which put a D-pad on the left hand and face buttons on the right precisely so they can double as a gamepad. Streamed PC VR content is exempt from all of it, because performance over the 6GHz dongle depends on the PC doing the rendering.

The tier below: 23 games rated Playable

Great on Frame shows only the top tier. One step down sits Playable, Valve's category 2, and Valve does not surface it anywhere on the storefront. It is readable through the same search filter with frame_compatibility=2, and each game's Steam app record names the specific check it failed. What that data shows is that almost none of these games missed on graphics. Eleven of them missed because the game never asks the system for the on-screen keyboard, which leaves you looking at a text field you cannot type into with a headset on.

The comparison worth making is against the Steam Deck. Seventeen of these titles hold Deck Verified, Valve's top handheld badge, and still land a tier lower on the Frame. One runs the other way: Roombattle is Unsupported on Deck and Playable here. Our full breakdown is in the September 11 piece on what the Playable tier measures.

Games rated Playable on Steam Frame, oldest test first. Held on is Valve's own failure token translated into plain English, and a game can carry more than one. Deck is the same title's Steam Deck rating. Type follows Valve's store categories, so VR covers both VR Only and VR Supported. We are Eva was missing from this list on September 11 because it had no Steam Frame compatibility record in its app data; the record appeared by launch day and is included.

Across the 23, the failures fall out as eleven on text input, five on the default controller configuration, five on default performance, three on native resolution, four on controller glyphs, two on interface legibility, and one, Cast n Chill, on a display output issue nothing else in the tier carries. For contrast, 127 of the 131 certified games carry the identical four passing checks with no variation at all.

Why this list is worth tracking

Deck Verified quietly became one of the most influential systems Valve ever shipped. It changed the performance targets developers aimed at and changed what people bought, because a green checkmark on a store page moves units. Valve is now running the same play for VR, a category that has always struggled to tell newcomers which of its thousands of titles are actually worth buying. We covered why the page's existence is itself a launch signal: Valve does not build customer-facing storefront sections for products it plans to sell next year.

The growth rate of this list was also the best public proxy for launch timing, and it held: the shelf reached 131 on the day Valve opened reservations. The Frame has no first-party launch game, so the certified catalog plus the bundled copy of Half-Life: Alyx is the launch lineup. Eight titles was not a lineup. 131 is one, and the shape of it is the interesting part: most of the growth has come from flatscreen catalog games like Balatro, Cuphead, and Hollow Knight: Silksong rather than native VR. Valve appears to be stocking the Frame the way it stocked the Steam Deck, with the VR list as the smaller specialty shelf inside a general Steam machine.

The awkward detail in the current list is that Valve's own The Lab is no longer on it. The 2016 showcase was certified on July 13, cut to Unsupported on July 29 and moved to an ARM64 Proton runtime on August 5. In the same stretch a free community mod, Half-Life 2: VR Mod, cleared certification. Whatever the badge measures, it is not measuring who made the game.

List changelog

Every change to the Great on Frame catalog since the page appeared, newest first.