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).

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Merchant Prince

DOS1993 Holistic Design

Action Fighter

DOS1989 Sega

Galaxy

DOS1981 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Dungeon Crawl

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1997freeware

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).

The Ancient Art of War at Sea

DOS1987 Evryware

Atomix

DOS1990 Softtouch

Atomix is a tile-based puzzle game released in 1990 by Thalion Software for platforms like Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and Commodore 64. The objective of Atomix is to assemble molecular structures by moving individual atoms around a fixed grid. Players must slide atoms into place, but they only stop when they hit an obstacle, making positioning a...

V for Victory: D-day Utah Beach

DOS1991protected Atomic Games

Nuclear War

DOS1989 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...

Tangled Tales

DOS1989 Origin Systems

Airborne Ranger

DOS1988 MicroProse Software

Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager

DOS1994protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

V for victory: Gold-Juno-Sword

DOS1993protected Atomic Games

Spirit of Excalibur

DOS1990 Synergistic Software

Allan Border's Cricket

DOS1993 Audiogenic

Demon's Winter

DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Ascii Sector

Windows 10/11LinuxDOS2007freeware

Rampart

DOS1992 Atari

Rampart is an abandoned mix of strategy and shooter game designed by Dave Ralston and John Salwitz, developed by Atari and released by Electronic Arts in 1992 for DOS. Rampart was converted from the original arcade version to a number of platforms, including Amiga, Atari ST, C64, Game Boy, Genesis, Lynx, NES, SEGA Master System, SNES. Rampart is a ...