[STEAM] Valve Isn't Currently Working On A New VR Game

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Valve confirmed that it's not currently working on a new first-party VR game.

Today saw Valve officially announce

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, a “streaming-first” standalone VR headset that's launching in “early 2026”. While the company is aiming to

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, this naturally raised the question: following 2020's

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, is Valve developing new VR games for the headset?

Speaking to UploadVR during our

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, Valve told us that it's “not talking about content today.” However,

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says that "a member of the Steam Frame team" denied that it has any VR content in development, offering what the publication described as a "simple and definitive no".

While Alyx wasn't a launch title for the Valve Index headset, the groundbreaking title arrived less than a year after launch. Before that, Valve had

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it was developing a flagship VR game, whereas Steam Frame will seemingly rely on existing and third-party titles.

As for Steam Frame itself, the newly announced headset uses a lightweight modular design and runs a VR version of Valve's SteamOS, which it previously used with Steam Deck. This also uses an updated version of the Proton compatibility layer that goes beyond SteamVR games, letting it also run almost any Linux, Windows, and Android application.

If you're interested to find out more about how it runs games, you can check out our

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