The most popular 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

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Civilization 2

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CD-Man v2.0

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World tour golf

DOS19853.7/5 Electronic Arts
Ajax

DOS19893.4/5 Konami
Fantasy Empires

DOS1993protected4/5 Silicon Knights
Blue Angel 69

DOS1989NSFW3.6/5
Bombuzal

DOS19893.5/5 Image Works
Nobunaga's Ambition 6

DOS19943.7/5 KOEI
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge

DOS19904.1/5 Westwood Studios
Ballistix

DOS19893.8/5 Reflections Interactive
Sarakon

DOS19913.8/5 Starbyte Software
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).
Settlers of Catan

DOS19984.2/5
Free Enterprise

Windows XP/98/9519964.2/5 Tsunami Media

Dehumanizing offices? Check. Depressing environment? Check. No windows in the whole place? Check. Good, I'm ready to exploit my workers and become great entrepreneur. All of this thanks to Free Enterprise, a simulation for Windows by Tsunami Media, published in 1996.
Sensible World of Soccer 96/97

DOS1996protected4/5 Sensible Software
Football Glory

DOS1995freeware3.6/5 Croteam
Night Mission Pinball

DOS19823.6/5 subLOGIC
Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday

DOS1990protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Lawn Mower

DOS19874/5
SimFarm

DOS19934.1/5 Maxis
War in Middle Earth

DOS19884/5 Synergistic Software
Space Rogue

DOS19894/5 Origin Systems

Space Rogue is a science fiction RPG developed by Richard Garriott's Origin and desined by Paul Neurath. Space Rogue combines a 3D space simulation with a top down view RPG gameplay. As a space pilot you can hunt bounties, buy and sell goods, land on starbases or outposts and talk to NPCs, do quests, etc.
Command HQ

DOS19904/5 Ozark Softscape
Super Pac-Man

DOS19823.6/5 Namco
Boston Bomb Club

DOS19914/5 Silmarils
CHAMP Ms. Pac-man

DOS1994remake4/5 ChamProgramming corp.
Minesweeper

Windows 3.x19924.1/5 Microsoft
Battle Master

DOS19913.7/5 Personal Software Services

Battle Master is a fantasy themed abandoned action-strategy game hybrid (with real-time tactics elements) developed by Personal Software Services. Battle Master was released by Mirrorsoft in 1991 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST and Genesis.
Blood & Magic

DOS19963.9/5 Tachyon Studios
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.
Chess88

DOS19843.9/5
Bass Tour

DOS19923.9/5