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 Reign: The Future of War
Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 Auran Games
Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager
DOS1994protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
DOS1993protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Darklands
DOSLinuxWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1992protected4/5 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
DOS19903.8/5 Event Horizon
Dawn Raider
DOS19903.6/5 Softstar Entertainment
Day of the Pharaoh
DOS19893.1/5 Chip
Death by Backgammon
DOS19903.3/5
Death Rally
DOS1996freeware4.1/5 Remedy Entertainment Ltd.
Decision at Gettysburg
DOS19903.8/5 TigLon Software
Decision in the Desert
DOS19853.8/5 MicroProse Software
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1
DOS19884/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2
DOS19894/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 3
DOS19923.5/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Decker
Windows2002freeware3.6/5
Defender of the Crown
DOS1991protected3.8/5 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
DOS19893.6/5 Micro Forté
Demon's Winter
DOS1989protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Disciples of Steel
DOS19943.9/5
DND
DOS19844.1/5
Dogs of War
Windows XP/98/951996demo4.2/5 Software Engineering
Dolphin Boating Simulator
DOS19883.1/5 Dolphine marine systems
Dominium
DOS19924.2/5 Microids
Donkey BAS
DOS19813.7/5 Microsoft
Dragon Lord
DOS19904.3/5 Spotlight Software
Dragonflight
DOS19913.6/5 Thalion
Dragonfly
DOS19863.2/5
Dragons of Flame
DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold
Dreamweb
DOS1994freeware4.1/5 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/98/9519984.2/5 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...