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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Pac Gal

DOS19823/5

Oxyd

DOS19923.9/5 Dongleware

OverKill

DOS1992freeware3.9/5 Tech-Noir

Over the Reich

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x19963.9/5 Big Time Software

Outbound

Windows XP/98/952001freeware3.9/5

Oubliette

DOS19833.3/5

Othello

DOS19864.1/5

Operation: Inner Space

Windows 3.x1994protecteddemo3.7/5 Software Dynamics

Operation Market Garden

DOS1985protected3.7/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Operation Europe: Path to Victory 1939-45

DOS19942.5/5 KOEI

Omega

DOS19894/5 Origin Systems

Omega is an abandoned science fiction themed strategy game developed and released by Origin Systems in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Omega is a rare example of a programming game about robots.

Omega

DOSLinux1988freeware3.8/5

Ogre

DOS19864.2/5 Origin Systems

O-Pong

DOS19963.1/5

Number Munchers

DOS19903.6/5 MECC

Nuclear War

DOS19894/5 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...

North and South

DOS19904.2/5 Infogrames

Nobunaga's Ambition 6

DOS19943.9/5 KOEI

Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS19893.9/5 KOEI

Nobunaga's Ambition

DOS19883.7/5 KOEI

No Greater Glory

DOSMac1991protected4.1/5

Night Mission Pinball

DOS19823.5/5 subLOGIC

NHL Hockey

DOS19934.1/5 Electronic Arts

NHL 96

DOS19954.2/5 Electronic Arts

NFL Pro League Football

DOS19894.3/5 Micro Sports

NFL Football

DOS19924.1/5 Distinctive Software

Nectaris

DOS19954/5 Hudson soft

Nebulus

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...