ManifoldPlay moneyOtherLikely noiseUpdated 13m ago

Will Valve release a new VR game before the end of 2026?

As of Oct 24, 2026, 4:13 PM ET, Manifold priced this market at 15.9% (down from 23.0% 24 hours earlier). It had 47.3 mana traded in the past 24 hours and 100 mana of pool liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as weak.

Market probability
15.9%
−7.1 percentage points
over 24 hours23.0% → 15.9%
Moving fastBig move, weak backing

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — thin market where small orders can move the price — and today's move was spread across many accounts.

Price historyManifold

Source: ProbCast snapshots (Manifold)

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Weak

Consensus stability

Forming

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

Thin

Pool liquidity

100 mana

Bid-ask spread

n/a

automated market maker

24h volume

47.3 mana

Total volume

425.4 mana

Play money: depth is in mana, so it says nothing about real-money conviction.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

Broad participation
29%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

9

Trades

27

over 56 days

Largest order

100 mana

345.6 mana traded across these 27 trades (last 56 days).

Many independent accounts traded — the price reflects a crowd, not one trader.

Recent trade activity$345.6 traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

Has to be a new VR game that will get listed (and stick for over a week) under the main 'Games' heading (not the Published by heading or Bundles heading) on the List of Valve games Wikipedia page If something catastrophic happens to the wikipedia page I will use my judgement for resolution.

This summary shows the opening of the venue's official rules. ProbCast has not yet generated an independent plain-English interpretation for this contract — review the full rules before relying on it.

View full official resolution rules

Has to be a new VR game that will get listed (and stick for over a week) under the main 'Games' heading (not the Published by heading or Bundles heading) on the List of Valve games Wikipedia page If something catastrophic happens to the wikipedia page I will use my judgement for resolution.

Why the odds moved

The probability fell 7.1 percentage points over the last 24 hours (23.0% → 15.9%).

No verified catalyst has been linked to this move yet. ProbCast does not attribute moves to news without evidence connecting the timing of a specific report to the repricing.

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesJanuary 7, 2027 at 11:39 AM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 24, 4:26 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±28 pts.

Reacting to newsLegacy movement classifier: noisy

What's happening

high classifier confidence
Reacting to news

The price is actively repricing on real volume. The number is still moving — don't treat the latest print as settled consensus yet.

  • Probability moved 7.1 pts in ≤6h on adequate liquidity
  • Flow one-directional across 9 participants (broad, not a single order)

Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
20Low
Where the price path tends to go next583 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet98%
  • Choppy / mean-reverting1%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityMedium· half-life ~8h
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Thin market.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Change (pts)1H0.06H-7.124H-7.17D-7.1

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