Browsing: Frames

Phasmophobia has a Steam Frame rating in its app record, and the rating is Unsupported. One test, dated July 22. One result line: UnsupportedGraphicsPerformance, the same token Valve hung on its own showcase, The Lab, a week later. On the Steam Deck the same game is rated Playable.

The mechanism is the one Steam Deck has used since 2022. Valve’s compatibility team tests a game, then writes a category number and a set of result tokens into the app’s public metadata, where anyone can read them through Steam’s app info API. Category 3 is Verified, the tier Valve markets as Great on Frame.…

Valve’s Great on Frame page listed 98 certified titles Thursday morning, up from eight on July 17. Nina counted them herself with Steam’s frame_compatibility filter instead of waiting on somebody else’s tracker, which is the right instinct and a habit worth stealing. The names are the part that got me. Beat Saber. Job Simulator. Pistol…

Combat Waffle Studios’ Ghosts of Tabor, Grim, and Silent North will soon have a new publisher as original publisher Beyond Frames is selling the publishing rights to a new company for $1 million.