The best 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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Prophecy of the Shadow

DOS1992protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony

DOS19914.1/5 Maxis

Frogger

DOS19834.1/5 Konami

Uncharted Waters

DOS19904.1/5 KOEI

Beneath Apple Manor

DOS1983freeware4.1/5

Empire II: The Art of War

DOSWindows XP/98/9519954.1/5 White Wolf Productions

Epidemic!

DOS1983protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Fountain of Dreams

DOS19904.1/5 Electronic Arts

Mech Brigade

DOS1987protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Renegade Legion Interceptor

DOS1990protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Slash'Em

Windows XP/98/95Linux1997freeware4.1/5

Slicks 'n' Slide

DOS19934.1/5

Total Annihilation

Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 Cavedog Entertainment

TV Sports: Basketball

DOS1990freeware4.1/5 Cinemaware

Raptor: Call of the Shadows

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac1994protecteddemo4.1/5 Cygnus Studios

Raptor: Call of the Shadows is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed by Cygnus Studios and published by Apogee Software. The game was first released in 1994 for MS-DOS and later ported to other platforms. In Raptor, players control a fighter jet through various levels filled with enemy aircraft, ground targets, power-ups and boss...

Star Wars 2

DOS19894.1/5

Starflight

DOS19864.1/5 Binary Systems

Starflight is a classic space exploration and role-playing video game released in 1986 by Binary Systems and published by Electronic Arts. It is known for its innovative gameplay, as well as its open-ended approach to space exploration and storytelling.The game is set in a massive, procedurally generated universe with thousands of star systems to e...

Flying Tigers

DOS19944.1/5 Ticsoft

Flying Tigers is an abandoned vertical-scrolling sci-fi themed shoot 'em up game developed and released by Ticsoft in 1994 for MS-DOS only. Flying Tigers is the first chapter of the two parts Flying Tigers video game series.

Toobin

DOS19894.1/5 Domark Software

Toobin is an abandoned action game developed by Domark Software and released in 1989. Toobin runs on DOS but was also published for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Game Boy Color, MSX, NES, ZX Spectrum. It's a conversion from a popular arcade game (at the time).

Knights of Xentar

DOS1994NSFW4.1/5 MegaTech Software

The Perfect General

DOS19914.1/5 White Wolf Productions

The Perfect General is a turn-based strategy military game developed by White Wolf Productions and released in 1991 by Quantun Quality Production. The Perfect General gameplay is quite simple compared to other wargames, but it's based on a solid set of rules and let the players progress at their own pace through missions and scenarios. The Perfect ...