Games that can be played on 2 monitors

[Eldin]

I bought second monitor for productivity reasons but now I'm wondering are there any games that can be played on two monitors?

I tried playing some split screen games with my brother (Rocket League, Contagion, Serious Sam).
It's cool that instead of splitting the screen he can play on one monitor and I can play on another.

But now I'm looking for some singleplayer games that can benefit from second monitor.
First thing that comes to my mind is strategy games.
Where for example on one monitor I could see what's going on on the whole map, see objectives and other info, and on another monitor I could see the action up close.

That's just an example.
If you know any game that can work well on dual monitor setup please let me know.

[BloodShed]

Supreme Commander

[Eldin]

Originally posted by BloodShed:

Supreme Commander

I just saw the video on YouTube and that's exactly what I want.
And it looks like I already have Supreme Commander 2 on my Steam account so I'm gonna try to play it on dual monitors.

I'd like to know are there any more games that can be played on dual monitors.
All suggestions are welcome.

[Eldin]

Are there any side-scroller games that can be played on 2 monitors?
I'd like to play it normally on the left monitor and right monitor would just show the more way ahead of me.

[nullable]

If I recall you could play X3 on two monitors. Where one monitor would be the normal UI, cockpit etc. And the second monitor could be used for all sorts of menus and data display.

[Hotshot]

I have this same question in 2023 Dec, I would like to see an updated list of games that can utilize more than one monitor natively and as part of the game. Example a Strategy game showing battle on one screen and resource data on other, or your character on one screen and your inventory on other screen. Imagine playing Stellaris, Eco and other simulators with multiple monitors. As common as dual monitors is, I wonder why more games don't take more advantage of multiple monitors

[Bill]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.