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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

Civilization
strategyDOS, Windows 3.x
Civilization 2
strategyWindows XP/98/95
Grand Theft Auto
action-adventureDOS, Windows XP/98/95

Top down games

  • reaping-the-dungeon-06
    DOS19934/5 Frontline Software
  • mordor-dephts-dejanol-07
    Windows 3.x1995protected4/5

    Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol is fantasy RPG game released in 1995 for Windows 3.x, but it runs flawlessy even Windows XP (see this faq if you want to play Mordor in a virtual machine). Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol is a mix of first-person and top-down perspective dungeon crawler; the game shows the dungeon in by both perspectives at onc...

  • 240racing-1
    DOS19984/5
  • clash-of-steel-07
    DOS1993protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
  • battleisle1-1
    DOS1991protected3.7/5 Blue Byte Software
  • champion-of-the-raj-02
    DOS19914.1/5 Personal Software Services
  • incursion-04
    WindowsLinuxMac2007freeware3.8/5
  • annalsofrome-1
    DOS19883.8/5 Personal Software Services
  • monopoly-deluxe-virgin-01
    DOSWindows 3.x19924/5 Parker Brothers

    Monopoly Deluxe is an abandoned turn-based top-down Monopoly adaptation  of the classic board game, developed by Parker Brothers and released by Virgin Interactive in 1992. Monopoly Deluxe was published for DOS, Windows 3.1, and Macintosh.

  • ogre-03
    DOS19864.2/5 Origin Systems
  • buckrogersmatrix-05
    DOS1992protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

    Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed is a CRPG developed by SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. and released in 1992 for DOS only. Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed is the sequel to Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday and it's based on a campaign setting created by TSR in the late 80s. The game uses the Gold Box engine, common to much of the RPGs developed by SSI.

  • decision_desert-05
    DOS19853.8/5 MicroProse Software
  • cave-wars-01
    DOS19964.3/5
  • gauntlet2-1
    DOS19894.1/5 Atari
  • archon-3
    DOS19844.2/5 Free Fall Associates

    Archon: The Light and the Dark is an abandoned DOS fantasy blend of strategy and action game, developed by Free Fall Associates and published for DOS by Electronic Arts in 1984. Archon and its sequels are a unique mix of chess-like turn-based strategy and arcade action games. Take chess and add the fact that every time two pieces land on the same s...

  • nectaris-5
    DOS19953.9/5 Hudson soft
  • capitalism-plus-01
    DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected4/5 Enlight Software
  • rings-of-medusa-01
    DOS19903.9/5 Starbyte Software
  • 2400ad-4
    DOS19884/5 Origin Systems
  • yatch-racing-simulator-02
    DOS19863.4/5
  • marble-cooking-05
    DOS1994NSFW3.4/5 Negative
  • merchant-colony-07
    DOS19914.2/5 Impressions Games
  • bushbuck-04
    DOS19914.1/5 Pc globe
  • dreamweb-hotel1
    DOS1994freeware4/5 Creative reality

    Dreamweb is a top-down point and click adventure set in a dark, cyberpunk city. You play as Ryan who has strange, violent, dreams. A top down perspective and the sheer number of items your character can pick up are just two of the peculiarities of this game. Dreamweb was developed by Creative Reality and published by Empire Interactive for DOS in 1...

  • infiltrator-2-01
    DOS19884.1/5 Chris Gray Enterprises
  • omegacomplex-1
    DOS19894/5 Origin Systems
  • robot-odissey-01
    DOS19853.9/5 The Learning Company
  • motor-city-1
    DOS19944/5 Max Design
  • dungeon-crawl-dos-03
    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).

  • dungshalan-2
    DOS19883.5/5