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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iRacing (simulators in general)
Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator.
If you are into older space sims and Star Trek, you might like it :D
Dariusburst Chronicle Saviours on Steam. Maybe the PS4 variant has some magic for multipule monitors, too but I’m too lazy to look. There may also be other Darius ports that utilize multiple monitors but this is the main one in the series.
It’s a horizontal shmup that used large displays in the arcade cabinets, that may have been multiple monitors but my memory is fuzzy.
You can stretch the game across multiple monitors in the game settings to replicate the super wide feel of the arcade game. They even have some “cabinet” connection options in the port that let’s you compare your scores and see replays from other players.
while not a novel thing such as extra menus or something, it let’s you play the game closer to its original format.
Almost every game on the Nintendo DS.
I don’t know of any PC games that do that. Just the DS.
I can fight anyone who tells me Metroid Prime Hunters online gameplay with the stylus and the touchscreen is not peak shooter gaming on the go.
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.
I know supreme commander 2 has the second screen as a tactical map. Not sure if it’s interactive though.
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)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!
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…
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
Supreme Commander!
Check out the FaF community, keeping it going strong.
Faf?
FAF is Forged Alliance Forever, a community launcher/patcher for Supreme Commander Forged Alliance (the expansion). It has an active community and adds a multiplayer ladder, balance fixes, quality of life improvements, co-op versions of campaign missions, and more. It’s great!
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.
My first thought as well. Good old times of triple boxing spy alts and whatnot. I still miss it sometimes.
I heard you like spreadsheets so I put a spreadsheet in your game so you can spreadsheet while you game
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?
That’s certainly a thing in Minecraft, depending on plugins installed.
