Top-down perspective
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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Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
DOS1993protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Darklands
DOSLinuxWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1992protected MicroProse Software
Darklands was a unique historical isometric RPG that mixed real historical data from medieval Germany during the 15th century with a touch of folklore and fantasy. Unfortunately it was also the only Microprose RPG of that kind and beauty. The original game box contained a huge manual with info on european folklore (including the live...
DarkSpyre
DOS1990 Event Horizon
Dawn Raider
DOS1990 Softstar Entertainment
Day of the Pharaoh
DOS1989 Chip
Death by Backgammon
DOS1990
Death Rally
DOS1996freeware Remedy Entertainment Ltd.
Decision at Gettysburg
DOS1990 TigLon Software
Decision in the Desert
DOS1985 MicroProse Software
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1
DOS1988 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2
DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 3
DOS1992 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Decker
Windows 10/112002freeware
Defender of the Crown
DOS1991protected Cinemaware
Defender of the crown is a strategy game set in the middle ages, in England. You control a Saxon and must fight Normans to control the country. The player can conquest territories, lay siege to castles, join tournaments, rescue damsels.
Demon Stalkers
DOS1989 Micro Forté
Demon's Winter
DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Disciples of Steel
DOS1994
DND
DOS1984
Dogs of War
Windows XP/98/951996demo Software Engineering
Dolphin Boating Simulator
DOS1988 Dolphine marine systems
Dominium
DOS1992 Microids
Donkey BAS
DOS1981 Microsoft
Doom: The Roguelike
DOS2005freeware
Dragon Lord
DOS1990 Spotlight Software
Dragonflight
DOS1991 Thalion
Dragonfly
DOS1986
Dragons of Flame
DOS1989protected U.S. Gold
Dreamweb
DOS1994freeware Creative reality
Dreamweb is a top-down point and click adventure set in a dark, cyberpunk city. You play as Ryan who has strange, violent, dreams. A top down perspective and the sheer number of items your character can pick up are just two of the peculiarities of this game. Dreamweb was developed by Creative Reality and published by Empire Interactive for DOS in 1...
Dune 2000
Windows XP/98/951998 Westwood Studios
Dune 2000 is an abandoned science fiction classic real-time strategy game based on the popular Dune franchise. The Dune "universe" took form in the books of science fiction writer Frank Herbert and went on to include movies, TV series, comics, and of course video games. Dune 2000 is one of the finest RTS of its era; it was developed by We...
Dune II: The building of a dynasty
DOS1992 Westwood Studios
Dune II, released in 1992, is a pioneering real-time strategy game developed by Westwood Studios. Set in the world of Frank Herbert's Dune, players command noble houses in a battle for control over the planet Arrakis. With base-building, resource management, and tactical combat, the game introduced key elements of the genre and influenced future RT...