Zen Studios published the RELEASE-DAY table roster for Pinball FX VR on Steam Frame on October 16, two days after the game went on sale. Count the TABLES the post ACTUALLY NAMES and you get 41: THREE in the $9.99 base game and 38 spread across 20 PAID add-on packs. That is ONE short of what the STUDIO PROMISED in September, when it wrote that “All 42 tables currently available in Pinball FX VR on Meta Quest are planned to be available at launch.”
The tally first surfaced in a MIXED count. Metaverse Watcher RECHECKED it against Zen’s OWN launch announcement and the live Steam store listing, and the NUMBERS HOLD. Zen itself has not set 41 against 42, and it has not said whether the GAP is a SINGLE table that slipped or simply a DIFFERENT way of counting.
How the 41 Breaks Down
The base game CARRIES THREE Zen originals: Sky Pirates: Treasures of the Clouds, Pinball Noir and Curse of the Mummy. EVERYTHING else is a SEPARATE PURCHASE. Of the 20 add-on packs, TEN hold a single table, TWO hold a pair and EIGHT hold three each, which is how the add-ons reach 38.
- Single tables (10): Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure, The Addams Family, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Twilight Zone, Scared Stiff, Elvira and the Party Monsters, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Goat Simulator, The Princess Bride and Pacific Rim.
- Two-table packs (2): Tomb Raider Pinball and the Williams Universal Monsters Pack.
- Three-table packs (8): Williams Pinball Volumes 1, 2, 3, 9 and 10, Universal Pinball: TV Classics, the Godzilla vs. Kong Pinball Pack and Bethesda Pinball (Fallout, DOOM and Skyrim).
The Williams name sits on EIGHT of those packs and 19 of the tables, from Medieval Madness and Attack from Mars to Scared Stiff. Zen also says Judge Dredd, “the 1993 Bally classic,” ARRIVES on Steam Frame on October 22. With it, the NAMED roster reaches 42. As of Monday morning ET, Steam’s add-on LIST still showed 20 packs and NO Judge Dredd entry, so its PRICE is UNKNOWN.
What the Full Set Costs
Steam’s U.S. prices for the 20 packs run $19.99 (nine packs), $14.99 (seven) and $7.99 (four). Added up, the add-ons TOTAL $316.80, or $326.79 with the base game, BEFORE any DISCOUNT. Zen offers what it calls Complete Bundles, a 40% discount for players who ALREADY own the same tables in the flat-screen Pinball FX on Steam, and it REPEATS that these “are not timed offers.” Nothing bought on QUEST carries over. Zen said in September that cross-store transfers are something it is “not allowed to offer.”
That PRICING is where early buyers are PUSHING back. At the time of writing, the Steam page showed SEVEN user reviews, four POSITIVE and three negative. All three NEGATIVE ones are about paying AGAIN for tables people already own. One reviewer also called the image “pretty low resolution/pixelated” outside the center of view. Another said the game looked as good as Pinball FX running through the UEVR injector once they raised Steam’s display setting. Seven reviews is far too SMALL a sample to call a VERDICT.
An Eye-Tracking Tip and an Unnumbered Patch
Zen ADVISES OWNERS to turn on eye tracking in the Steam Frame headset settings: “For the best visual quality, we recommend enabling Eye Tracking in your Steam Frame headset settings. Please note that this is a device-level setting, not an in-game option.” The studio does not say WHICH part of its rendering BENEFITS. It also says it is “planning to release a patch next week with various fixes,” but names NO fixes and gives no build number.
The Steam listing marks the game VR Only and single-player, with leaderboards and a Global Campaign Mode. Zen said before launch that the Steam Frame version targets visuals SIMILAR to Quest 3 and would ship WITHOUT the Quest version’s mixed reality mode. This follows a ROCKY launch week: within hours of going on sale October 14, Zen warned that some PAID tables might not load, as we REPORTED at the time.
The Bottom Line
For now, Steam Frame owners get 41 NAMED tables, a promised 42nd on October 22, and a patch with no details. The real QUESTION is not the one-table gap. It is whether a LIBRARY that costs more than $300 at list price, with no Quest carryover, can win over an audience that is ALREADY COMPLAINING about buying the same tables TWICE. The September announcement also promised “many more tables planned for the future,” so the roster is MEANT to keep GROWING.