The best top down games

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).

Most popular top down games

Dune 2000

strategyWindows XP/98/95

Civilization 2

strategyWindows XP/98/95

CD-Man v2.0

actionDOS

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Fields of Glory

DOS1993protected4.1/5 MicroProse Software
Xonix

DOS1984remake4.1/5
Hexxagon

DOS19934.1/5 Argo Games
Speedball 2

DOS19924.1/5 Bitmap Brothers
Battle Isle 2200

DOS1994protected4.1/5 Blue Byte Software
Railroad Tycoon

DOSMac1990freeware4.1/5 MicroProse Software
Nebulus

DOS19884.1/5 Hewson Consultants
4Play

Windows 3.x1995NSFW4.1/5
CD-Man v2.0

DOS19924.1/5 Creative Dimensions
Nuclear War

DOS19894.1/5 New World Computing

Nuclear War is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by Eric Hyman and Jon Van Caneghem. Nuclear War was developed and released by New World Computing in 1989 for Amiga and, later, for DOS, and it's loosely based on a card game of the same name. Nuclear War took a satirical approach to the grim possibility of a global nuclear war and succe...
Blades of Exile

Windows 3.xMacWindows XP/98/951997freeware4.1/5 Spiderweb Software
Conquest of Japan

DOS19924.1/5 Impressions Games
Kick off 2

DOS19904.1/5 Anco Software
Raptor: Call of the Shadows

DOSWindows XP/98/951994protected4.1/5 Mountain King Studios
Wayne Gretzky Hockey

DOS19894.1/5 Bethesda Softworks
Ragnarok

DOS1993freeware4.1/5 Gray Design Associates
Spacewar

DOS19854.1/5
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein

DOS19854.1/5 Muse Software
Entomorph: Plague Of The Darkfall

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac1995protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Exile: Escape from the Pit

Windows XP/98/95MacWindows 3.x1995freeware4.1/5 Spiderweb Software
Rockford: The Arcade Game

DOS1987protected4.1/5 Arcadia Systems
Atomix

DOS19904.1/5 Softtouch
It Came from the Desert

DOS1990freeware4.1/5 Cinemaware

It Came from the Desert is an abandonware action-adventure game developed by Cinemaware and released in 1990 for PC (DOS) and Amiga. It Came From the Desert is an action-adventure game with a peculiar flavor: it's set in the 50s, in the USA, and it's based on those old monster movies like Them! (also involving killer ants).
Shard of Spring

DOS1987protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
WinRisk

Windows 3.x19924.1/5
Merchant Prince

DOS19934.1/5 Holistic Design
Command & Conquer

DOS1995freeware4.1/5 Westwood Studios
God of Thunder

DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware4.1/5 Adept Software

God of Thunder is a free computer role-playing game designed by Ron Davis, developed by Adept Software and released by Software Creations in 1993 for DOS and Windows platforms. God of Thunder is an action oriented RPG (sort of...) with strong puzzle elements with a norse mythology theme.
Minesweeper

Windows 3.x19924.1/5 Microsoft
Slicks 'n' Slide

DOS19934.1/5