Many gamers have setups with two or monitors. Oftentimes these differ in size, resolution, even aspect ratio. They can be very helpful in productivity tasks, but mid-gameplay they rarely serve as more than displays for external music or chat.
Are there games that utilize this extra space in a unique way and are played better or exclusively with two or more monitors? Preferably something more than just extra FOV
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Runescape (both OSRS and RS3) cause the second screen will be filled with the best wiki in the gaming industry, movie or just some random video.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_support_multi-monitor
Awesomely useful site
Not really, it conflates games that have some ability to spread one screen between to monitors and games that actually utilize two monitors.
There was a 3D military tactic game or two from one dev that had dual monitor support. Where the second monitor became an overhead map that let you issues commands.
Oddly enough, Uplink.
What did uplink do? I cant find anything online except people having issues due to dual monitors.
I believe it showed the map screen. The functionality worked over a network so it didn’t even have to be dual monitors on the same machine!
elite generous, never tried though
Elite Generous? Is that the space philanthropy game?
I’ve heard rumours that Kitten Space Agency (the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program, considering KSP2 is dead on arrival) will support multiple monitors.
I know it has multiplayer baked in at every step of the development (even if it won’t be available on release). So maybe I’m getting my wires crossed between multimonitor and features of the multiplayer that sound like they would be great for multi monitor (IE, someone plays as ground control)Every Nintendo DS game.
How do you get your DS games on the monitors?
Wii U too!
Not really, that was the big gimmick of the console, but only a handful of games actually utilize it.
Games like breath of the wild had the feature cut despite being designed with it in mind.
ZombiU does it well however.
The Wii U was stuck working against itself in a number of ways. On paper, the idea of bringing the DS’s successful format to a console sounded great… but couldn’t actually work the same way in practice.
The first problem was that human eyes can’t focus on two screens at different distances from the eye. You can’t actually look at both screens together, you have to switch your focus from one to the other.
Then there’s just the economic reality of console development requiring developers to prioritize multiplatform development. No one wants to design a game around the Wii U and have it be exclusive to the Wii U. That was viable for the DS because the DS was such a massive juggernaut, and because handheld titles could be developed on a much smaller budget, but Wii U exclusivity could never be justified. Games that are being developed for other single-screen platforms and then ported to Wii U can’t do much with the Gamepad.
But perhaps the most ironic nail in the coffin was that the best use case for the Gamepad, Off-TV Play, could only be supported by games designed around a single screen. Developers shouldn’t make the second screen important or else they lose this feature!
Back in the day Supreme Commander could utilize a second monitor for a dedicated map that you could zoom in and out of independently of the main game window. I don’t remember if you could do other things with it, but I thought it was pretty sweet with just that.
Simulators, like x-plane or flightsim, and I think some driving sims can use lots of monitors. Like 4 monitors for the cockpit windows and another two for control panels etc. though you need a hench pc and graphics set up to do this at a decent frame rate
I don’t think any driving sim can use a smaller monitor as a dash/timer natively. Most people do this through third party software like SimHub
In wish factorio could show the map on a second screen
Doesn’t Factorio have a mod that hosts a local server you can connect to with your browser and view the map? Or am I thinking about Minecraft?
Eve Online!
Once you won EVE, try out Prosperous Universe. No combat. Just the economics/trading of EVE, no need to always be on.
Plus, we have the best spreadsheets.
Yeah, if you’re not running (at least) two clients, you’re playing eve wrong.
I heard you like spreadsheets so I put a spreadsheet in your game so you can spreadsheet while you game
My first thought as well. Good old times of triple boxing spy alts and whatnot. I still miss it sometimes.
BallisticNG has the option to do multiplayer in either split screen or on a seperate monitor.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/473770/BallisticNG/
X2 had some singleplayer multi monitor features, buf the later games X3, XR and X4 did not…
Supreme Commander!
Check out the FaF community, keeping it going strong.
Probably not quite what you meant but two monitors for Dwarf Fortress is a god send. Game on one screen, the other for DFHack console, Announcements, SoundSense, Dward Therapist, and various other utils. Could probably use 3 actually…
