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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DOS19894.1/5 Taito

18th Airborne

DOS19933.9/5

Monopoly (Adam Stevens)

DOS19983.9/5

Boston Bomb Club

DOS19913.9/5 Silmarils

Super Pac-Man

DOS19823.5/5 Namco

Space 1889

DOS19903.9/5 Paragon Software

Space 1889 is an abandoned top down RPG developed by Paragon Software and released in 1990 for DOS, Atari ST and Amiga. Space 1889 setting is classic science fiction, but is set in the Victorian. It's worth noting that Space 1889 is loosely based on the tabletop game of the same name.

Sensible World of Soccer 96/97

DOS1996protected3.7/5 Sensible Software

Cap Man

Windows XP/98/9519993.7/5

Amazing Maze

DOS19833.2/5

Gary Grigsby's Pacific War

DOS1992protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Sargon V: World Class Chess

DOS19913.8/5 Activision

Solidarnosc

DOS19913.4/5 P. Z. Karen Co. Development Group

Pinball Dreams 2

DOS1994protected3.1/5 21st Century Entertainment

Evets

DOS1988freeware3.5/5 SAck Enterprizes

Ogre

DOS19864.2/5 Origin Systems

Computer Diplomacy

DOS19843.5/5 Avalon Hill

Traffic department 2192

DOS1994freeware3.7/5 P Squared

Conflict: Europe

DOS19894.2/5 Personal Software Services

Conflict Europe is an abandoned turn-based top-down strategy game set in Europe. The game was developed by Personal Software Services and released by Mirrorsoft in 1989 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.