diff --git a/docs/steam-games.md b/docs/steam-games.md
index 567bf02..8716e59 100644
--- a/docs/steam-games.md
+++ b/docs/steam-games.md
@@ -108,7 +108,8 @@ games, sideloaded titles, non-Steam shortcuts and Android apps. A game's library
 tile, a sideloaded title's ⋯ menu and the Control Center's **Force quit a game**
 card have **Force quit…** too. Each asks first ("Unsaved progress will be
 lost"); from a game's own menu it checks that the game is running and says so if
-it isn't.
+it isn't. SteamVR (app 250820, and its beta 1009850) is never listed or quit:
+on the Frame it shows the headset view, so quitting it isn't a way out of a game.
 
 `ui/frame_running.py` does the work on the Frame, piped over SSH with
 `frame_steam.py` as its DevTools client:
diff --git a/tests/test_force_quit.py b/tests/test_force_quit.py
index add1498..aa30bc7 100644
--- a/tests/test_force_quit.py
+++ b/tests/test_force_quit.py
@@ -83,6 +83,15 @@ class Parsing(unittest.TestCase):
         procs[700] = proc(303, "reaper", [REAPER, "SteamLaunch", "AppId=777"], state="Z")
         self.assertEqual(frame_running.reapers(procs, ME), {620: [400], 999: [500]})
 
+    def test_steamvr_is_never_a_game(self):
+        procs = frame()
+        procs[710] = proc(303, "reaper", [REAPER, "SteamLaunch", "AppId=250820", "--", "vrstartup"])
+        procs[711] = proc(710, "vrcompositor-launcher")
+        self.assertNotIn(250820, frame_running.reapers(procs, ME))
+        found = frame_running.running(procs, ME, steam=lambda ids: ([250820], {}),
+                                      android=dict, containers=set)
+        self.assertNotIn(250820, [a["appid"] for a in found])
+
     def test_gameid(self):
         self.assertEqual(frame_running.gameid(620), "620")
         # A non-Steam shortcut: (appid << 32) | 0x02000000, as steam_shortcuts.py stop sends.
diff --git a/ui/frame_running.py b/ui/frame_running.py
index 19e811f..718ee7b 100644
--- a/ui/frame_running.py
+++ b/ui/frame_running.py
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ PROTECTED = frozenset({
     "pipewire", "pipewire-pulse", "wireplumber", "plasmashell", "kwin_wayland", "kwin_x11", "Xwayland",
     "sddm", "vrserver", "vrcompositor", "vrmonitor", "vrdashboard", "vrwebhelper", "vrstartup",
 })
+# Steam launches SteamVR under a reaper too, but on the Frame it's the headset's view,
+# not a game: it's never listed or quit (SteamVR and SteamVR Beta).
+NOT_GAMES = frozenset({250820, 1009850})
 STEAM_WAIT = 5      # seconds for Steam's own terminate to end the game
 TERM_WAIT = 3       # then SIGTERM, and this long before SIGKILL
 KILL_WAIT = 2
@@ -108,7 +111,7 @@ def reapers(procs, uid):
     out = {}
     for pid, p in procs.items():
         appid = launch_appid(p["argv"])
-        if appid and p["uid"] == uid and p["state"] != "Z":
+        if appid and appid not in NOT_GAMES and p["uid"] == uid and p["state"] != "Z":
             out.setdefault(appid, []).append(pid)
     return out
 
@@ -262,7 +265,8 @@ def running(procs=None, uid=None, steam=steam_view, android=android_apps, contai
             found.setdefault(int(m["shortcut"]), [])
     listed, names = steam(set(found))
     for appid in listed or ():
-        found.setdefault(int(appid), [])
+        if int(appid) not in NOT_GAMES:
+            found.setdefault(int(appid), [])
     out = []
     for appid, roots in sorted(found.items()):
         pids = tree(procs, roots, set())