Great on Frame: Every Steam Frame Verified Game, Tracked
Part of ourSteam Frame hub. For the launch picture, see therelease date trackerandprice 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 and lists eight titles as of July 17: three from Valve and five from third parties, including two flatscreen games. This page tracks every title on the list, what the certification actually requires, and every addition as Valve fills the shelves ahead of launch.
The full Great on Frame list
Eight games carry the badge as of July 17, 2026. The list launched with five titles the week of July 13 and grew by three within a day, which is exactly the cadence you would expect from a company stocking shelves before opening the doors.
| Game | Developer | Type | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Lab | Valve | VR | Jul 13, 2026 |
| Aperture Hand Lab | Valve | VR | Jul 13, 2026 |
| Portal 2 | Valve | Flatscreen | Jul 13, 2026 |
| Into Black | The Binary Mill | VR | Jul 13, 2026 |
| Titan Isles | Psytec Games | VR | Jul 13, 2026 |
| Underdogs | One Hamsa | VR | Jul 14, 2026 |
| Ancient Dungeon | Eric Thullen | VR | Jul 14, 2026 |
| Slots & Diapers | Independent | Flatscreen | Jul 14, 2026 |
Every game on Valve’s Great on Frame page, in the order they appeared. VR titles must hold 90 FPS on-device; flatscreen titles need 720p at 30 FPS with full controller support.
The LabValve’s 2016 VR minigame collection, the original room-scale showcase, now certified on its own standalone hardware.
Aperture Hand LabThe 2019 hand-interaction demo built to show off Index controller finger tracking, recertified for the Frame’s controllers.
Portal 2Not a VR game at all. Its badge covers standalone flatscreen play on-device through Proton, with full Frame controller support.
Into BlackThe cave-diving VR adventure was one of the first third-party games certified, a strong pick for showing off on-device rendering.
Titan IslesA VR adventure from the studio behind Windlands, a series practically built on smooth locomotion holding a high frame rate.
UnderdogsThe physical mech brawler is one of the most demanding arm-workout games in VR, which makes its 90 FPS badge a real statement.
Ancient DungeonThe solo-developed voxel roguelite that punches far above its weight. A natural fit for standalone hardware.
Slots & DiapersLike Portal 2, a flatscreen title. Its inclusion signals Valve wants the Frame judged as a general Steam machine, not only a VR headset.
What the badge actually certifies
Great on Frame is the shop window for theSteam Frame Verified programValve announced at GDC 2026, and the bar is not gentle. A standalone VR title has to hold 90 frames per second running on the headset’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, stricter than the 72Hz baselines Meta and Pico accept for their own stores. The reasoning 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 hasno first-party launch game, so the certified catalog is the launch lineup. Eight titles is not a lineup yet. Watch how fast that number climbs; it will tell you more about the release date than any shipping manifest.
List changelog
Every change to the Great on Frame catalog since the page appeared, newest first.
Jul 14, 2026Underdogs, Ancient Dungeon, and Slots & Diapers added, bringing the list to eight.
Jul 13, 2026Great on Frame page discovered live on Steam with five titles: Portal 2, The Lab, Aperture Hand Lab, Into Black, and Titan Isles.
Frequently asked questions
What is Great on Frame?
Great on Frame is a curated Steam storefront section, live at store.steampowered.com/greatonframe, that collects every game certified to run well on the Steam Frame, Valve’s upcoming standalone VR headset. It is the VR sibling of Great on Deck, the label that told Steam Deck buyers which games would actually play well on the hardware.
Which games are Great on Frame right now?
Eight titles as of July 17, 2026: The Lab, Aperture Hand Lab, Portal 2, Into Black, Titan Isles, Underdogs, Ancient Dungeon, and Slots & Diapers. Three are Valve’s own, and two of the eight (Portal 2 and Slots & Diapers) are flatscreen games rather than VR titles.
What does Steam Frame Verified require?
Standalone VR titles must hold 90 FPS on-device, stricter than the 72Hz baselines Meta and Pico accept for their own certification tiers. Standalone flatscreen titles need at least 720p at 30 FPS with full Steam Frame controller support and a working default configuration. The badge is a recommendation rather than a gate.
Why are flatscreen games like Portal 2 on a VR headset list?
The Steam Frame runs SteamOS and plays regular Steam games on-device through Proton, displayed on a virtual screen, with controllers that double as a gamepad. Certifying flatscreen titles signals that Valve wants the Frame treated as a portable Steam machine that also does VR, not a VR-only device.
Do streamed PC VR games need the Great on Frame badge?
No. The certification applies to games running on the headset itself. Anything streamed from a gaming PC over the Frame’s dedicated 6GHz wireless dongle is exempt, because performance there depends on your PC, not the headset.
When does the Steam Frame come out?
Valve has confirmed summer 2026 but has not named a day or a price as of July 17, 2026. The Great on Frame page going live is one of the strongest launch signals yet; storefront sections appear when a product is weeks away, not quarters. Our Steam Frame hub tracks every release date and price signal.
