Top-down perspective sorted by release date
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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Ikari III: The Rescue
DOS19903.4/5 SNK Corporation
Iron Lord
DOS19903.5/5 UBI Soft
Ishido: The Way of the Stones
DOSMac OS19903.8/5 Publishing International
It Came from the Desert
DOS1990freeware4.1/5 Cinemaware
It Came from the Desert is an abandonware action-adventure game developed by Cinemaware and released in 1990 for PC (DOS) and Amiga. It Came From the Desert is an action-adventure game with a peculiar flavor: it's set in the 50s, in the USA, and it's based on those old monster movies like Them! (also involving killer ants).
Italy 1990
DOS19904/5 Tiertex Design Studios
Ivan 'Iron Man' Stewart's Super Off Road
DOS19904.2/5 Leland
Ivan 'Iron Man' Stewart's Super Off Road is an abandoned diagonal-down off-road racing game developed by Leland and released by Virgin Interactive in 1990 for DOS, but also published for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64, ZX Spectrum and a lot of 8-bit and 16-bit consoles. Super Off Road is a classic fixed-screen track-racing similar to S...
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I
DOS19904/5 Interplay Productions
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I is an abandoned fantasy top-down DOS RPG game set in the The Lord of the Rings universe. The Lord of the Rings I was developed and released by Interplay Productions in 1990. The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I is based on the popular The Lord Of The Rings book by J.R.R. Tolkien and it's focused on the f...
Keys to Maramon
DOS19903.9/5 Mindcraft Software
Keys to Maramon is a role-playing game developed by Mindcraft Software and released in 1990 for the Amiga, MS-DOS, and Commodore 64 platforms. The game is set in the same universe as the "Magic Candle" series, another popular RPG series by Mindcraft. The game is set in the fantasy town of Maramon, where the player must protect the town from waves o...
Khalaan
DOS19903.6/5 Chip
Kick off 2
DOS19904/5 Anco Software
King's Bounty
DOSMac OS19903.9/5 New World Computing
King’s Bounty is a turn-based strategy game with RPG elements, originally released in 1990 by New World Computing. It was created by Jon Van Caneghem, also known for the Might and Magic series. This game is often regarded as the precursor to the Heroes of Might and Magic series, which shares many of its core mechanics and concepts. In Ki...
Kingdom of Kroz 2
DOS19903.2/5 Apogee Software
Kurtan
DOS19903.4/5 TbiliSoft
Logo
DOS1990NSFW3.8/5 Starbyte Software
Loopz
DOS19903.8/5 Audiogenic
Lost Adventures of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.3/5 Apogee Software
M.U.D.S. - Mean Ugly Dirty Sport
DOS19904.1/5 Golden Goblins
MacArthur's War
DOS19904/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy
DOS19903.9/5 Paragon Software
MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy is a science fiction role-playing game (RPG) released in 1990. The Zhodani Conspiracy is the first installment in the MegaTraveller series and was developed by Paragon Software.MegaTraveller 1 takes place in the Traveller universe's Third Imperium, a vast interstellar empire. The plot revolves around a c...
Mystical
DOS1990protected3.5/5 Infogrames
North and South
DOS19904.2/5 Infogrames
Number Munchers
DOS19903.6/5 MECC
Panzer Battles
DOS19903.1/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Pinball Magic
DOS19903.7/5 Loriciels
Puzznic
DOS19904.2/5 Taito
Railroad Tycoon
DOSMac OS1990freeware4.1/5 MicroProse Software
Renegade Legion Interceptor
DOS1990protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Return to Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.1/5 Apogee Software
Rings of Medusa
DOS19904/5 Starbyte Software
Rings of Medusa is a strategy / RPG developed by the German studio Starbyte Software. It was released in 1989 for various platforms including the Commodore 64, Amiga, and MS-DOS. In Rings of Medusa, players assume the role of a hero tasked with defeating the evil sorceress Medusa who has taken control of the city of Olympus. The game world is ...
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2
DOS19903.9/5 KOEI
Romance of the Three Kingdoms II is a turn-based strategy game developed and published by Koei. It was released in 1989 for various platforms, including the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), MS-DOS.In Romance of the Three Kingdoms II, players take on the role of a ruler during this period, and their objective is to unify China under their rule. ...