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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CD-Man v2.0

DOS1992 Creative Dimensions

Nobunaga's Ambition

DOS1988 KOEI

Action Fighter

DOS1989 Sega

UnReal World v. 3.20

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1992freeware

007: License to Kill

DOS1989 Quixel

Hack

DOS1984freeware

Angband

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1992freeware

Star Wars 2

DOS1989

Beneath Apple Manor

DOS1983freeware

Beneath Apple Manor is a pioneering game in the roguelike genre, originally developed and released in 1978 by Don Worth for the Apple II and later re-released for DOS as a "Special Edition". It's one of the earliest known role-playing video games (RPGs) with procedurally generated dungeons.In Beneath Apple Manor, players take on the role of an adve...

Gauntlet

DOS1986 Mindscape

Spy Hunter

DOS1984 Midway Manufacturing Company

Rollo and the Brush Brothers

DOS1983 Windmill Software

Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager

DOS1994protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Traffic department 2192

DOS1994freeware P Squared

Astro Fire

DOS1994freewareremake ORT Software

Archon: the Light and the Dark

DOS1984 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...

Laser Squad

DOS1992 Target Games Limited

Laser Squad is an abandoned turn-based strategy/tactical game designed by Julian Gollop (the mind behind the X-COM series). Laser Squad was developed by Target Games Limited and released by MicroLeague Multimedia in 1992 for DOS and other 8-bit systems. Laser Squad is considered as a precursor of X-COM: Ufo Defense.