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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Power Drive

DOS19944.2/5 Rage Games

Power Dolls

DOS19943.9/5 Kogado Software Products

Postman Pat 3: To the Rescue

DOS19923.5/5 Alternative Software

Populous: The Beginning

Windows XP/98/951998protected4.2/5 Bullfrog

Poko Memorial: 18 Hole Miniature Golf

DOS19872.3/5 Gold Hill Software

Planet's Edge

DOS1991protected4/5 New World Computing

Pizza Tycoon

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1994protected4/5 Software 2000

Pirates! Gold

DOSWindows 3.xMac1993protectedremakedemo4/5 MicroProse Software

Pirates! Gold is an open world game designed by Paul Murphy, developed and released by MicroProse Software in 1993 for DOS, Windows 3.x, Mac and also Sega Genesis and Amiga CD32. Pirates! Gold is a remake of the game Pirates, created by Sid Meier in 1987. Pirates! Gold gameplay is a unique mix of action, strategy, pirate life simulation, ...

Pipe Dream

DOSWindows 3.x19894.3/5 The Assembly Line

Pipe Mania (also known as Pipe Dream is a tile-matching (sort of) puzzle game about flowing liquids developed by The Assembly Line in 1989. You must build a path made of pipe pieces to let a green liquid (sewer goo?) flow. It's simple, original and addicting, that's why Pipe Mania was cloned a number of times.

Pinball World

DOS19953.8/5 Spidersoft Limited

Pinball Magic

DOS19903.7/5 Loriciels

Pinball Illusions

DOS19953.7/5 Digital Illusions

Pinball Fantasies

DOS19944.2/5 Digital Illusions

Pinball Dreams 2

DOS1994protected3.1/5 21st Century Entertainment

Pinball Dreams

DOS1993protected4.1/5 Digital Illusions

Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw

DOS19893/5 Oxford Mobius

PHM Pegasus

DOS19873.3/5 LucasArts

Phantasie 3: The Wrath of Nikademus

DOS19874.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Phantasie 1

DOS1987protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

People's General

Windows XP/98/951998protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

PC-Man

DOS1982remake4.2/5 Orion Software

PC-Man is an abandoned top-down Pac-Man clone in every regard: from the shape of the protagonist, to the cute ghosts. PC-Man was designed by Greg Kuperberg, developed by Orion Software and released in 1982 for DOS. As PC-Man, you have to move through a one screen maze to collect dots (pills? wafers?) and avoid being touched by one of the usual Pac-...