Top-down perspective sorted by year, newest first

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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18th Airborne

DOS19933.9/5

Alien Breed

DOS1993protected3.6/5 Team 17

Allan Border's Cricket

DOS19934.2/5 Audiogenic

Ambush at Sorinor

DOS19933.7/5 Mindcraft Software

Bass Duel

DOS19933.7/5

Battle Isle 93: The Moon of Chromos

DOS19934/5 Blue Byte Software

Bloodstone: an Epic Dwarven Tale

DOS19934/5 Mindcraft Software

Bravo Romeo Delta

DOS19934/5

Burntime

DOS19933.9/5 Max Design

Capture the Flag

DOS19932.5/5

Carnage

DOS19934.1/5 Warped Minds

Castle of the Winds

Windows 3.x1993freeware4.2/5 SaadaSoft

Castle of the Winds is a fantasy roguelike role-playing game developed by SaadaSoft in the early 1990s. It was designed for Windows 3.x and is notable for being one of the earliest graphical RPGs for that platform. The game features a top-down perspective and incorporates elements of dungeon crawling, exploration, and character development.The game...

Clash of Steel

DOS1993protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Daemonsgate

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1993protected3.8/5 Imagitec Design

Dark Sun: Shattered Lands

DOS1993protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Empire Deluxe

DOSWindows 3.x19934/5 White Wolf Productions

Epic Pinball

DOSMac1993protected3.7/5 Digital Extremes

Fantasy Empires

DOS1993protected3.9/5 Silicon Knights

Fields of Glory

DOS1993protected4.1/5 MicroProse Software

FlixMix

DOS19933.5/5 Celeris

Gary Grigsby's War in Russia

DOS1993protected3.7/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Global Domination

DOS19933.5/5 Impressions Games

Goal!

DOS19933.9/5 Dini & Dini Productions

God of Thunder

DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware4/5 Adept Software

God of Thunder is a classic computer game developed by Adept Software and released in 1993. It's a puzzle platformer with a fantasy theme. In the game, you control Thor, the Norse god of thunder, on a quest to save Midgard (Earth) from the evil god Loki and his minions.The gameplay involves navigating through various levels filled with obstacles, e...