Games you can play with a Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Well above the recommended CPU - expect a comfortable 1080p experience with headroom.

• Street Warriors Online
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown
• Mirror's Edge™
• PAYDAY™ The Heist
• Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
• Codename CURE
• Back to Bed
• Heroes® of Might & Magic® III - HD Edition
• Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
• MudRunner
• STAR WARS™ - The Force Unleashed™ Ultimate Sith Edition
• Transport Fever
• Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
• FEZ
• The Last Remnant™
• BioShock® 2
• BLOCKPOST LEGACY
• Crysis
• How to Survive
• Gear Up
• Mark of the Ninja
• Orcs Must Die! Unchained
• Dragons and Titans
• Age of History 3
• Alpha Protocol™
• Anomaly Korea
• Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign
• Atomicrops
• Axon Hero
• Bad North: Jotunn Edition
• Ballistic Overkill
• Batman - The Telltale Series
• Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series
• Battle Carnival
• Battlestations Pacific
• Bear Simulator
• Blood Knights
• Blood of Patriots
• Book of Travels
• Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
• ChessLocke
• Command & Conquer™ 4 Tiberian Twilight
• Crashday Redline Edition
• Crowntakers
• Damnation
• Darkness Assault
• Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
• Dead Rising® 2

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Meets or beats the recommended CPU - the intended experience at 1080p.

• Stumble Guys
• Cuphead
• Hitman: Absolution™
• Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
• South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
• Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
• Assassin's Creed 2
• Loop Hero
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
• Assassin’s Creed® Brotherhood
• Aliens vs. Predator™
• Eador. Masters of the Broken World
• Mass Effect 2 (2010 Edition)
• 10 Second Ninja X
• 60 Seconds!
• A Boy and His Blob
• Anno 2070™
• Anno 2205™
• Assassin’s Creed® Liberation HD
• Assassin’s Creed® Rogue
• Atlantica Global
• Ballest of Them All
• Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe
• Blade Kitten
• Blazing Chrome
• BlockArtist
• Blood Feed
• BloodRayne Betrayal (Legacy)
• Bloop Reloaded
• Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced
• Broken Age
• CAYNE
• CLASH
• Capcom Fighting Collection
• Codename: Rogue Fleet
• Conan Chop Chop
• Construction Simulator 2 US - Pocket Edition
• CosmicBreak Universal
• Costume Quest 2
• DJMAX RESPECT V
• Day of the Tentacle Remastered
• Deadlight: Director's Cut
• Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
• Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition
• Dinosaur Forest
• Double Dragon: Neon
• Drakensang
• Drakensang: The River of Time

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Clears the minimum CPU but not the recommended one - playable with reduced settings.

• Paladins®
• Human Fall Flat
• NBA 2K20
• RimWorld
• It Takes Two
• Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
• MONSTER HUNTER RISE
• Crossout
• Total War: WARHAMMER II
• Tom Clancy’s The Division™
• Tomb Raider Game of the Year
• APB Reloaded
• Evolve Stage 2
• Realm Royale Reforged
• Killing Floor 2
• Total War: ATTILA
• STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
• The Crew™ 2
• This War of Mine
• Resident Evil 4 (2005)
• Batman™: Arkham Origins
• Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
• Resident Evil 6
• MechWarrior Online™ Legends
• FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION
• A Way Out
• The Escapists 2
• Alien: Isolation
• Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2
• Last Man Standing
• Persona 4 Golden
• Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection
• Blasphemous
• Kingdoms and Castles
• Total War: WARHAMMER
• DYNASTY WARRIORS 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition
• Resident Evil
• Age of Wonders III
• NBA 2K21
• A Plague Tale: Innocence
• Resident Evil Revelations 2
• NBA 2K19
• Steep™
• Armored Warfare
• DmC: Devil May Cry
• Natural Selection 2

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Below the stated minimum CPU - likely to struggle even at low settings.

• Counter-Strike 2
• PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
• Rust
• Apex Legends™
• Grand Theft Auto V Legacy
• Call of Duty®
• NARAKA: BLADEPOINT
• Baldur's Gate 3
• HELLDIVERS™ 2
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
• War Thunder
• Dead by Daylight
• DayZ
• Warframe
• VRChat
• R.E.P.O.
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• ELDEN RING
• Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Destiny 2
• Cyberpunk 2077
• ARK: Survival Evolved
• Rocket League®
• Palworld
• Euro Truck Simulator 2
• Path of Exile 2
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
• eFootball™
• Satisfactory
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• Monster Hunter: World
• Fallout 4
• Phasmophobia
• Cities: Skylines
• Risk of Rain 2
• Arma 3
• Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
• Battlefield™ V
• Hunt: Showdown 1896
• Lethal Company
• Last Epoch
• Hogwarts Legacy
• New World: Aeternum
• Dying Light
• Raft

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FAQ

How many games can a Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 run?

Of 3,151 games with usable CPU requirements, 520 run on a Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (273 at their recommended settings), and 2631 fall below the minimum.

Is the Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 still good enough for modern games?

It is showing its age - it clears the minimum for many games but misses the recommended CPU target for a large share of them.