The most popular top down games

Top down games were very popular in the 80s and the 90s, when graphic cards were not capable of supporting 3D, and even when 3D started to become popular, 2D games continued to be easier to develop, at least in the infancy of 3D gaming. 2D game offered the player a viewpoint that helped keeping things easily under control (think about top down party-based RPGs or hex-based strategy games).

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WindowsLinuxDOS2007freeware3.9/5

Beyond Castle Wolfenstein

DOS19854/5 Muse Software

Lords of Midnight: The Citadel

DOS19954.3/5 Maelstrom Games

High Command: Europe 1939-45

DOS19924.1/5 Colorado Computer Creations

Sword of Aragon

DOS1989protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Black Moon Chronicles

DOS1999protected4.2/5 Cryo Interactive Entertainment

Demon's Winter

DOS1989protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1

DOS19884/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Tempest 2000

DOS1996remake4.2/5 Atari

Tempest 2000 is a video game developed by Llamasoft and published by Atari Corporation. It was released in 1994 for DOS, Mac, the Atari Jaguar console, etc. Tempest 2000 is an enhanced remake of the original Tempest, which was released in arcades in 1981.In Tempest 2000, players control a claw-shaped ship that moves around the edges of geometric sh...

Puzznic

DOS19904.2/5 Taito

MacArthur's War

DOS19903.9/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Rescue Rover

DOS1991protected3.8/5 id software

Mah Jongg Solitaire

DOS19874/5 Arcanum Computing

Major Stryker

DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware4/5 Apogee Software

Ground Control

Windows XP/98/952000protected4/5 Massive Entertainment

Ground Control is a strategy game developed by Massive Entertainment and released by Sierra On-Line in 2000. More precisely Ground Control is a real time tactical game with a sci-fi setting.