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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Gnome Alone
DOS19913.9/5
Flying Tigers
DOS19944.1/5 Ticsoft
Flying Tigers is an abandoned vertical-scrolling sci-fi themed shoot 'em up game developed and released by Ticsoft in 1994 for MS-DOS only. Flying Tigers is the first chapter of the two parts Flying Tigers video game series.
Planet's Edge
DOS1991protected4/5 New World Computing
CD-Man v2.0
DOS19924.1/5 Creative Dimensions
Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars
DOS19904.2/5 id software
Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars is a platform video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1990 as shareware for MS-DOS. The game follows the adventures of an eight-year-old genius named Billy Blaze, who uses his homemade spaceship to travel to various alien planets to save the Earth from alien invaders known as V...
Roadwar Europa
DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
The Blue & the Gray
DOS19934.3/5 Impressions Games
Air Traffic Controller
DOS19854.2/5 Cascoly Software
Pinball Dreams 2
DOS1994protected3.2/5 21st Century Entertainment
Sword Quest 2: Tale of the Talisman
DOS19933.6/5
Lords of Conquest
DOS19873.6/5 Eon Software
Empire Deluxe
DOSWindows 3.x19934/5 White Wolf Productions
Empire Deluxe is a classic turn-based strategy game that was originally released in the early 1990s. Developed by Mark Baldwin and Bob Rakowsky of White Wolf Productions and published by New World Computing, it is a successor to the game Empire, which was created by Walter Bright in the late 1970s. The game is set on a world map, where pl...
Railroad Tycoon Deluxe
DOS19934.1/5 MicroProse Software
Pinball Illusions
DOS19953.7/5 Digital Illusions
Speedball 2
DOS19924.1/5 Bitmap Brothers
King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table
DOS19943.5/5 MVP Software
Moraff's Revenge
DOS19883.7/5 Moraffware
Merchant Prince
DOS19934.1/5 Holistic Design
Steel Panthers 3: Brigade Command - 1939-1999
DOS1997protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Sleuth: A Murder Mystery
DOS1983freeware4.1/5 Norland Software
Astro Fire
DOS1994freewareremake3.8/5 ORT Software
Cannon Fodder
DOS1994protected4.1/5 Sensible Software
Cannon Fodder, released by Sensible Software in 1993, is a military-themed action game that cleverly blends strategy with real-time tactics. Players control a small squad of soldiers through various missions, facing enemies and obstacles in a top-down perspective. The game's distinctive style is marked by its dark humor and satirical take on war, m...
Gremlins
DOS19842.8/5 Atari
UnReal World v. 3.20
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1992freeware4.1/5
Aleshar World of Ice
DOS19973.8/5
Highway Hunter
DOS19943.2/5 Safari Software
The Civil War
DOS19873.3/5 Avalon Hill
Conflict: Europe
DOS19894.2/5 Personal Software Services
Conflict Europe is an abandoned turn-based top-down strategy game set in Europe. The game was developed by Personal Software Services and released by Mirrorsoft in 1989 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.
Battlestar
Windows 3.x1996freeware3.8/5
Escape from Hell
DOS19904/5 Electronic Arts