Great on Frame: Every Steam Frame Verified Game, Tracked

Last updated: August 24, 2026

Part of our Steam Frame hub. For the launch picture, see the release date tracker and price tracker.

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 89 matches on August 24, more than a tenfold increase in six 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 fills the shelves ahead of launch.

The Great on Frame list, and how fast it grew

Valve's page reported 89 matches on August 24, 2026. 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, and is at 89 now. The filter panel on Valve's page breaks the catalog down as 55 Action, 41 Adventure, 32 Casual, 24 Simulation, and 16 RPG titles, with games counted in more than one genre. Every one of those counts rose in the last fourteen days, and RPG doubled.

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 89. 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.

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 is also the best public proxy for launch timing. The Frame has no first-party launch game, so the certified catalog is the launch lineup. Eight titles was not a lineup. Sixty-five is the beginning of 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.