Top-down perspective sorted by title, from Z to A

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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Sherlock: The Game of Logic

DOS1991protected4.1/5 Everett Kaser Software

Shawl

DOS19863.4/5 AcademySoft

Shard of Spring

DOS1987protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye

Windows 3.xMac19903/5 Activision

Shamus

DOS19843.7/5 Synapse Software

Sexy Droids

DOS1992NSFW3.8/5 Eleven Software

Settlers of Catan

DOS19984.1/5

Sensible World of Soccer 96/97

DOS1996protected3.7/5 Sensible Software

Sensible Soccer

DOS19924.1/5 Sensible Software

Sensible Golf

DOS19943.2/5 Sensible Software

Sensible Golf is a golf video game developed by Sensible Software and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. It was released in 1994 for Amiga and MS-DOS.Unlike traditional golf simulations of its time, "Sensible Golf" featured a more arcade-style gameplay with simple controls and colorful graphics. Players could choose from a variety of fi...

Seek and Destroy

DOS19964.2/5 Safari Software

Seek and Destroy was a shoot'em up published by the well known Epic Megagames in 1996 that tried to change the usual shoot'em up gameplay for the better. Instead of wave after wave of enemies to shoot down, you are given short missions to accomplish with your helicopter or your tank (yes, you can choose). At first, missions could seem a bit repetit...

Scrabble

DOS19893.6/5

Scrabble

DOS19923.4/5 U.S. Gold

Scavengers of the Mutant World

DOS19883.9/5 Interstel Corporation

Sargon V: World Class Chess

DOS19913.8/5 Activision

Sarge

DOS19893.3/5

Sarakon

DOS19913.8/5 Starbyte Software

Royal Flush Pinball

DOS19943.5/5 Amtex

Rotox

DOS19914.2/5 Creative Materials

Romance of the Three Kingdoms 3: Dragon of Destiny

DOS19934/5 KOEI

Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2

DOS19904/5 KOEI

Romance of the Three Kingdoms II is a turn-based strategy game developed and published by Koei. It was released in 1989 for various platforms, including the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), MS-DOS.In Romance of the Three Kingdoms II, players take on the role of a ruler during this period, and their objective is to unify China under their rule. ...

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

DOS19893.9/5 KOEI

Rollo and the Brush Brothers

DOS19833.6/5 Windmill Software

Rogue

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac19844.2/5 Artificial Intelligence Design

Rogue is one of the first RPGs in the history of video gaming. It's a text-based dungeon crawler in which you have to fight your way in the dungeon to recover the Amulet of Yendor. Rogue became popular around 1980 on mainframes and later ported to various platforms, including DOS in 1984. Rogue is simply the father of all the roguelike games that c...