Abandonware DOS title

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

DOS1993protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Darklands

DOSLinuxWindows XP/98/95Mac1992protected4/5 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...
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DarkSpyre

DOS19903.8/5 Event Horizon
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Dawn Raider

DOS19904/5 Softstar Entertainment
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Day of the Pharaoh

DOS19893/5 Chip
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Death by Backgammon

DOS19903.3/5
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Death Rally

DOS1996freeware4.1/5 Remedy Entertainment Ltd.
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Decision at Gettysburg

DOS19903.7/5 TigLon Software
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Decision in the Desert

DOS19853.8/5 MicroProse Software
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1

DOS19884/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2

DOS19893.9/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 3

DOS19923.5/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Decker

Windows2002freeware3.5/5
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Defender of the Crown

DOS1991protected3.9/5 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.
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Demon Stalkers

DOS19893.6/5 Micro Forté
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Demon's Winter

DOS1989protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Disciples of Steel

DOS19943.9/5
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DND

DOS19844.1/5
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Dogs of War

Windows XP/98/951996demo4.2/5 Software Engineering
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Dolphin Boating Simulator

DOS19883.1/5 Dolphine marine systems
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Dominium

DOS19924.1/5 Microids
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Donkey BAS

DOS19813.8/5 Microsoft
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Dragon Lord

DOS19904.2/5 Spotlight Software
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Dragonflight

DOS19913.6/5 Thalion
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Dragonfly

DOS19863.2/5
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Dragons of Flame

DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold
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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...
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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...
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Dune II: The building of a dynasty

DOS19924.2/5 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...
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Dungeon Crawl

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1997freeware4/5
Dungeon Crawl (also known as Linley's Dungeon Crawl from the name of the original programmer: Linley Henzell) is a classic roguelike: an RPG with permadeath, procedural generation and high replayability. Dungeon Crawl was released on 1997 but it's not maintained anymore. The spiritual successr of Crawl is DCCS (Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup).