What Games Run on Steam Frame? How to Check

Start with Valve's Great on Frame collection to browse reviewed local games, then open the game's Steam page for its current Frame badge and any caveats. The catalog can change, so this guide explains how to check a title rather than maintaining a fixed game list.

First decide where the game will run. Standalone flat and VR games run on the headset; streamed flat and VR games run on a host PC. Valve's Frame badges cover only the standalone paths.

The four standalone badge states

Valve's Steam Frame compatibility review uses four states:

• Verified: the title passes Valve's Frame criteria without required manual changes.
• Playable: it runs, but Valve identified one or more caveats that the user may need to handle.
• Unsupported: it does not meet the current requirements.
• Unknown: Valve has not assigned a result yet.

Unknown is not a prediction. It means the current catalog has no completed result to show.

Recheck the game's store details after significant game, Proton, FEX, SteamOS, or compatibility-review updates.

What Valve checks

A compatibility result covers more than whether an executable opens. Valve says its review checks launch behavior, controller support and glyphs, readable text, runtime compatibility, and performance in the Frame form factor.

The published performance floors differ by presentation:

• A standalone flat title must meet at least 30 FPS at 1280 × 720.
• A standalone VR title must meet at least 72 FPS at 1728 × 1728 per eye.
• A VR title below 1440 × 1440 per eye is treated as unsupported.

These are minimum review criteria, not a claim that every Verified game has identical image quality or never drops a frame. Valve's VR assessment uses a rolling 32-frame average and filters isolated excursions so repeated timing problems matter more than one brief event.

The badges cover standalone play only

Valve explicitly limits this review to games running locally on Steam Frame. It does not rate PC-streamed execution because the host hardware and network are outside one fixed test target.

• A Verified badge supports a local-play claim, not a guarantee about a particular PC stream.
• Missing or Unsupported standalone status does not prove a suitable host PC cannot stream the game.

When looking up performance reports, check whether the game ran on the headset or a host PC.

How standalone software reaches ARM64

Steam Frame uses an ARM64 processor. Valve documents several supported execution models:

• Native Linux ARM64: the developer ships a build for Frame's architecture.
• Windows x86 through Proton and FEX: Proton handles Windows compatibility and FEX translates x86 instructions to ARM64.
• Android ARM64 through Lepton: the developer supplies an Android depot for the Lepton path.

Valve expects existing Windows x86 builds to be common, but each title still has to pass the actual compatibility review. The presence of Proton or FEX is not itself a performance result.

Why Steam Deck badges are separate

Steam Deck uses x86-64 hardware. A Windows game on Deck may need Proton, but it does not need FEX to translate the processor instruction set.

Deck Verified can tell you that Valve has reviewed a title on Deck. It cannot stand in for Frame's ARM64 runtime, controller presentation, virtual-screen behavior, or VR requirements. The correct Frame evidence is a Frame badge or an explicitly labeled Frame observation.

The same caution applies to community reports. In Steam Frame Run Scores, compare evidence for your exact mode rather than borrowing a Deck result or mixing local play with streaming.

Anti-cheat and other blockers are title-specific

Compatibility layers can interact with anti-cheat, launchers, codecs, peripherals, and account flows. Avoid turning one game's failure into a rule for every title using the same vendor or feature.

Check the exact game's current Frame badge and details. If Valve marks it Playable or Unsupported, read the listed reason rather than inferring a cause from its Deck status.