Valve Now Shows Your Steam Frame Order Window

Update, 24 October 2026. This page said Valve gives reservation holders no idea of their wait. Since its post of 9 October, it does: signed in, the Steam Frame page shows whether your order email comes by December or in 2027. Valve still gives no queue number, so the community trackers are now the second place to look, not the first.

There is no Steam Frame tracker with a queue number, but Valve now shows each reservation its order window: sign in to Steam, open the Steam Frame page, and it reads “by December” or “in 2027”. The waitlist gets no date: Valve emails a region’s waitlist only once that region’s reservation queue runs out.

When your purchase email arrives, you have 72 hours to buy. Valve prices the headset at $1,059 for 256GB and $1,299 for 1TB, with no power supply in the box.

What Valve tells you at each stage

Your status	What Valve shows or sends	When
Signed up before the shuffle	An email: reservation or waitlist	17 September
Reserved, “by December”	Your order email	By December
Reserved, “in 2027”	Your order email, plus more detail on timing	Detail by January, email in 2027
Purchase email received	72 hours to buy, then the next person in line	From 18 September
Waitlisted	An email if you move up into the reservation queue	No date given
Signing up now	The back of the waitlist, in the order people join	No date given

The window is on the product page itself, visible while you are signed in. Those in the 2027 group, Valve says, “will receive further (more detailed) information on their expected order timing by January”. It has not said how it split reservations between the two groups, or how quickly headsets ship once you order. TweakTown, reporting the change on 12 October, notes the same gaps.

How long is the Steam Frame waitlist?

Valve does not say. It publishes no unit count and no waitlist position, and its 9 October update promises waitlisted people only that “we will let you know if spots open up”. Two rules set the order. Lists are separate for each model and for North America, the UK and EU, and Australia. And, in Valve’s words, “we’re only dipping into waitlists in a region when we reach the end of its reservation queue”.

So where some reservations are already in the 2027 group, a waitlist place in that list is behind them. It can move sooner in one way: Valve’s FAQ says that if reservation holders cancel, waitlisted people “may be moved up” and are told by email. Beyond the current queue, Valve says “any future production runs” go to the waitlist in order.

What the community trackers can add

They estimate a position, which Valve does not give. They rest on one assumption: that the lottery-result emails Valve sent on 17 September went out in queue order, so an earlier send time means an earlier place. Frame Queue compares the timestamps people submit, and says on its methodology page that “Valve has not confirmed that assumption”. Its figure is your place within its sample, “not the full queue or a delivery estimate”, and it adds that submissions may be fabricated and email delivery may be batched.

Question	Valve, signed in	A community tracker
Am I reserved or waitlisted?	Yes: the 17 September email says	Not needed
When will my order email come?	A window, by December or in 2027	No: Frame Queue says its figure is not a wait time
Roughly where in my list am I?	No	An estimate, if Valve sent emails in order
How many units are there?	No	No
How far has the queue got?	No	Only as far as buyers report it

Headline counts come from the same self-selected samples. TweakTown reported on 18 September that the Steam Frame Out tracker counted more than 40,000 people saying they signed up and fewer than 19,000 reporting a reservation. That describes who chose to report, not Valve’s queue.

If you use one, read what it collects first. Frame Queue asks for the link in your Valve email and says it stores the product, your country, status, timestamp and a hash, but not the link, your email address or your player name.

Who could sign up, and where

A Steam account in good standing that bought something on Steam before 27 April 2026, one sign-up per household, checked against payment method and shipping address. After the shuffle you cannot switch between 256GB and 1TB, and cancelling releases your place rather than moving it.

Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong order through Valve’s distributor Komodo, and South Korea is listed as later. Valve’s console is sold the same way: the Steam Machine is a waitlist, not a checkout.

What it costs, by region

From Valve’s launch post, including VAT where it applies:

Currency	256GB	1TB
US dollar	1,059	1,299
Canadian dollar	1,529	1,859
Euro	1,049	1,279
Pound sterling	889	1,089
Australian dollar	1,609	1,969
Polish złoty	4,539	5,549

Half-Life: Alyx is included, redeemed once per headset.

Budget for the add-ons before the email comes

Valve says its own power supply and accessory kits “will only be available to customers purchasing their Steam Frame as part of the add-to-cart process”. In US dollars: the 45W power supply is $29, the Ergonomic Accessories Kit $59 and the Accessory Replacement Kit $49. If you want them, they have to be in the basket inside the 72-hour window.

The power supply is the one you can skip. Valve’s page says a Steam Deck charger works, as does any USB-C charger of 45W or more, and its spec sheet puts charging at up to 45W over USB-C.

If you do buy and change your mind, Steam hardware has its own rules: 14 days from delivery, not the two hours games get.

The headset, on paper

From Valve’s spec sheet:

• Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 16GB of RAM, 256GB or 1TB plus a microSD slot
• 2160 × 2160 LCD per eye, 72–144Hz, with 144Hz marked experimental
• Eye tracking used for what Valve calls foveated streaming, which it says typically gives “over a 10x improvement in image quality and effective bandwidth”
• A 6GHz wireless adapter in the box for streaming from a PC
• Controllers on one AA battery each, which Valve puts at about 40 hours

Valve describes the Frame as able to play some games standalone and stream the rest from a PC. Its launch post says more than 100 games are already Steam Frame Standalone Verified; how the Arm chip runs Windows and Android games is worth reading before assuming a game runs on the headset alone. The name follows Valve’s Deck programme, whose badges we unpicked in what the Steam Deck badges actually promise.

Questions people ask

Is there an official Steam Frame reservation tracker?

Partly, since 9 October. Sign in to Steam and open the Steam Frame product page: Valve says a reservation shows whether your order email comes by December or in 2027. It gives no queue number, unit count or progress figure, so sites calling themselves trackers are community estimates.

How do I check my Steam Frame order window?

Sign in to your Steam account, then go to the Steam Frame page on the Steam store. Valve says reservation holders see confirmation there that their order email will arrive either by December or in 2027. The email, when it comes, gives you 72 hours to buy.

What does “in 2027” mean on my Steam Frame reservation?

Your order email is not expected this year. Valve says people in the 2027 group will get more detailed information on their expected order timing by January. It has not said how it split reservations between the two groups.

What is the Steam Frame waitlist time?

Valve gives no date for the waitlist. It says it emails a region’s waitlist only once that region’s reservation queue is used up, and some reservations already run into 2027. Before then, cancellations and lapsed 72-hour windows are what move a waitlist place up.

Is there a Steam Frame waitlist tracker?

Not from Valve. Its 9 October update says it will let waitlisted people know if spots open up, and gives no position. Community trackers such as Frame Queue rank emails people submit, and say their figure is a place in their own sample, not a wait time.

Can I still sign up for a Steam Frame?

Yes, but only for the waitlist. The shuffle that set the reservation queue happened once, at 10am Pacific on 17 September. Anyone joining since goes to the back of the waitlist for their region and model, in the order they join.

What happens if I miss the 72-hour purchase window?

Valve cancels your reservation and moves on to the next person in line. Neither its FAQ nor its 9 October update says you go back on the waitlist, so treat the email as the one chance that place gives you.

Can waitlisted people get a Steam Frame before me?

Not in the same list. Valve says nobody on the waitlist leapfrogs a reservation holder, and lists are separate by region and model, so someone in another region can be emailed sooner than you.