New Frontier on Valve's SteamOS devices
New Frontier, an indie game, has no SteamOS verdict yet — help the next player by submitting how it runs on your Steam Machine, Deck or Frame.
At a glance across Valve's SteamOS devices
Can the Steam Machine run New Frontier?
New Frontier isn't rated for the Steam Machine yet — Steam publishes no SteamOS compatibility signal for it, and we'd rather say so than guess. The hardware targets 1080p; we'll publish a verdict as data arrives. One signal does exist: 6 Linux players report it as Borked on ProtonDB — it does not currently run under Proton at all. Its 4 GB VRAM ask sits under the Machine's 8 GB. Recommended RAM is 16 GB — exactly the Machine's 16 GB.
Steam Machine
~Radeon RX 7600 / GeForce RTX 4060 class · 8 GB GDDR6 (dedicated graphics memory) · 1080p–1440p native · 4K 60 with FSR upscaling
No SteamOS signal strong enough to call this one, at any settings tier — so we don't. Measure it on your Machine and this splits into three real tiers.
Steam Deck
AMD RDNA 2, 8 CU (~1.6 TFLOPs) · 800p handheld (1280×800) · 15 W TDP
Steam Frame
2160×2160 per eye · 72–144 Hz · standalone + PC streaming
A flatscreen game. On the Frame it's played on a virtual big screen, best streamed from your Machine over the 6 GHz link.
Analysis — New Frontier on the Steam Machine
As an indie game, this leans on the CPU in dense scenes — the Machine's 6-core Zen 4 is the part to watch in a crowded social hub or raid with dozens of players on screen. Resolution costs little here; simulation/draw-distance settings cost the most.
8 GB of VRAM is comfortable for this title at 1080p; you're unlikely to hit the texture-streaming wall unless you push 1440p with max textures.
New Frontier isn't SteamOS-rated yet. As an indie game on the Machine's RX 7600-class GPU, plan for a 1080p experience — the 6-core Zen 4 CPU carries the dense scenes, so resolution costs little and simulation/draw-distance settings cost the most. Games like it in this genre — e.g. The Cycle: Frontier — land red on the Steam Machine, so expect broadly similar. Own it on a Valve device? Submit your FPS and we'll publish a measured verdict.
What-if FPS estimator
Scales our base Steam Machine verdict by typical per-setting costs — a directional what-if, not a measured benchmark. Real results vary by title and scene.
Frequently asked
Can the Steam Machine run New Frontier?
New Frontier isn't rated for the Steam Machine yet — Steam publishes no SteamOS compatibility signal for it, and we'd rather say so than guess. The hardware targets 1080p; we'll publish a verdict as data arrives. One signal does exist: 6 Linux players report it as Borked on ProtonDB — it does not currently run under Proton at all. Its 4 GB VRAM ask sits under the Machine's 8 GB. Recommended RAM is 16 GB — exactly the Machine's 16 GB.
Can you play New Frontier on the Steam Frame?
New Frontier is a flatscreen game. On the Steam Frame you'd play it on a virtual big screen, best streamed from a Steam Machine or PC over the 6 GHz link.
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How we know this
Inferred from this title's official SteamOS / Steam Deck compatibility rating, scaled to the Machine's roughly 6× Deck GPU power.
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