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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 applications

Dune 2000
strategyWindows XP/98/95
Grand Theft Auto
action-adventureDOS, Windows XP/98/95

Top down applications

  • fields-of-glory-05
    DOS1993protected4.1/5 MicroProse Software
  • ragnarok-2
    DOS1993freeware4.1/5 Gray Design Associates
  • ultima1-3
    DOS19874.1/5 Origin Systems

    This is the first of the very popular RPG saga Ultima. The setting is the land of Sosaria, the enemy to defeat is Mondain. It's a classic cRPG. The wilderness and cities are represented from a top down perspective, while dungeons can be explored in a first person 3d view.

  • raptor-1
    DOSWindows XP/98/951994protected4.1/5 Mountain King Studios
  • hexxagon-1
    DOS19934.1/5 Argo Games
  • speedball2-4
    DOS19924.1/5 Bitmap Brothers
  • star-wars-2-04
    DOS19894.1/5
  • pirates-2
    DOS1987protected4.1/5 MicroProse Software
  • battle-isle-2-01
    DOS1994protected4.1/5 Blue Byte Software
  • steel-panthers-3-06
    DOS1997protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
  • command-and-conquer-06
    DOS1995freeware4.1/5 Westwood Studios
  • ground-control-09
    Windows XP/98/952000protected4.1/5 Massive Entertainment

    Ground Control is a strategy game developed by Massive Entertainment and released by Sierra On-Line in 2000. More precisely Ground Control is a real time tactical game with a sci-fi setting.

  • nebulus-1
    DOS19884.1/5 Hewson Consultants

    Nebulus, also known as Tower Toppler in some regions, is a classic video game released in the 1980s. It was developed by John M. Phillips and published by Hewson Consultants. The game was initially released for various home computer systems, including the Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, and others. It later saw ports to different platforms. Neb...

  • nfl-football-03
    DOS19924.1/5 Distinctive Software
  • nuclearwar-1
    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...

  • kickoff2-8
    DOS19904.1/5 Anco Software
  • ancient-art-of-war-at-sea-06
    DOS19874.1/5 Evryware
  • wayne-gretzky-hockey-1
    DOS19894.1/5 Bethesda Softworks
  • 4play-01
    Windows 3.x1995NSFW4.1/5

    4Play is a multi-player board-like strategy party-game for adults released for Windows 3.1 in 1995. 4Play is a board-game very similar to Monopoly in which players have to perform certain (adult) actions in response to events happening on the board.

  • spacewar-1
    DOS19854.1/5
  • btechcrescent-1
    DOS19884.1/5 Westwood Studios
  • conquest-of-japan-02
    DOS19924.1/5 Impressions Games
  • exile1-01
    Windows XP/98/95MacWindows 3.x1995freeware4.1/5 Spiderweb Software
  • pizza-tycoon-5
    Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1994protected4.1/5 Software 2000
  • atomix-1
    DOS19904.1/5 Softtouch
  • blades-exile-02
    Windows 3.xMacWindows XP/98/951997freeware4.1/5 Spiderweb Software
  • Rockford_The_Arcade-05
    DOS1987protected4.1/5 Arcadia Systems
  • shard-of-spring-03
    DOS1987protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
  • winrisk-01
    Windows 3.x19924.1/5
  • xonix-1
    DOS1984remake4.1/5