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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When Two Worlds War

DOS19933.6/5 Impressions Games

Operation Europe: Path to Victory 1939-45

DOS19942.5/5 KOEI

Railroad Tycoon Deluxe

DOS19934.1/5 MicroProse Software

The Civil War

DOS19873.3/5 Avalon Hill

Prophecy: the Fall of Trinadon

DOS19893.4/5 Activision

TomeNET

Windows XP/98/95Linux2003freeware4.4/5

The Ancient Art of War at Sea

DOS19874.1/5 Evryware

Challenge of the Five Realms

DOS1992protected3.7/5 MicroProse Software

Phantasie 1

DOS1987protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Qix

DOS19894.1/5 Taito

Face Off!

DOS19894.3/5 MindSpan

Face Off! is an abandoned hockey sports game developed by MindSpan (known for their Hardball series) and released by Gamestar in 1989 for DOS and also for Commodore 64. Face Off supports multiplayer in competitive or cooperative modes.

Army Men 2

Windows XP/98/951998protected4.1/5 The 3DO Company

WinRisk

Windows 3.x19924.1/5

Gengis Khan

DOS19893.5/5 KOEI

Hexxagon 2

DOS19934/5 Argo Games

Empire II: The Art of War

DOSWindows XP/98/9519954.1/5 White Wolf Productions

Puzznic

DOS19904.2/5 Taito

Windwalker (Moebius 2)

DOS19892.8/5 Origin Systems

18th Airborne

DOS19933.9/5

Space 1889

DOS19903.6/5 Paragon Software

Space 1889 is an abandoned top down RPG developed by Paragon Software and released in 1990 for DOS, Atari ST and Amiga. Space 1889 setting is classic science fiction, but is set in the Victorian. It's worth noting that Space 1889 is loosely based on the tabletop game of the same name.

Global Effect

DOS19924.1/5 Millennium Interactive

Galaxy

DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Ascii Sector

WindowsLinuxDOS2007freeware4/5

TV Sports: Basketball

DOS1990freeware4.1/5 Cinemaware

Sargon V: World Class Chess

DOS19913.8/5 Activision

Burntime

DOS19934/5 Max Design

Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine

DOS1991protected4/5 id software

Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine is a science fiction action oriented platform game designed by Tom Hall, developed by id Software and released by Apogee Software in 1991 for DOS only. Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine is part of the Commander Keen game series, specifically it's the second episode of Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy.