The most popular false 3D games

Before the first real 3D techniques started to become popular in RPGs, some developers used to "mimic" a 3D perspective without 3D technology. The RPG that popularized that kind of "false 3D" was Dungeon Master. Fake 3D environments were also widely used in SSI Goldbox RPGs and a few others.

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Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed

DOS1992protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed is a CRPG developed by SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. and released in 1992 for DOS only. Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed is the sequel to Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday and it's based on a campaign setting created by TSR in the late 80s. The game uses the Gold Box engine, common to much of the RPGs developed by SSI.

Galdregon's Domain

DOS19883.8/5 Pandora

Lords of Doom

DOS19904.1/5 Attic Entertainment Software

Gateway to the Savage Frontier

DOS1991protected4.1/5 Stormfront Studios

Yendorian Tales: The Tyrants of Thaine

DOS19973.9/5 SW Games

Obitus

DOS19913.5/5 Scenerio Software

Obitus is a role-playing video game developed by Psygnosis and released in 1991 for various platforms including the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. It combines elements of role-playing games (RPGs) and action-adventure games and is set in a fantasy world.In the game, players control the protagonist who finds themselves transported to the realm of Obitus ...

Yendorian Tales: Book I - Chapter 2

DOS19963.8/5 SW Games

Ancients 2: Approaching Evil

DOS19943.9/5 Farr-Ware Software

Moraff's Dungeon of the Unforgiven

DOS19933.9/5 Moraffware

Wizardry 3: Legacy of Llylgamyn

DOS19833.8/5 Sir-tech Software

Fates of Twinion

DOS19933.6/5 Sierra On-Line

Xenomorph

DOS19904/5 Pandora

Shadow of Yserbius

DOS19933.8/5 Sierra On-Line

Dark Designs 1: Grelminar's Staff

DOS19903.8/5 Softdisk Publishing

The Third Courier

DOS19893.9/5 Manley Associates

The Third Courier is an abandoned (atypical) adventure / role playing game set in Berlin during the cold war era and, of course, it's a spy game. The Third Courier was developed by Manley Associates and released by Accolade in 1989 for DOS, but it was also published for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST platforms.