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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Omega
DOSLinux1988freeware
Ogre
DOS1986 Origin Systems
O-Pong
DOS1996
Number Munchers
DOS1990 MECC
Nuclear War
DOS1989 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 car...
North and South
DOS1990 Infogrames
Nobunaga's Ambition 6
DOS1994 KOEI
Nobunaga's Ambition 2
DOS1989 KOEI
Nobunaga's Ambition
DOS1988 KOEI
No Greater Glory
DOSMac OS1991protected
Night Mission Pinball
DOS1982 subLOGIC
NHL Hockey
DOS1993 Electronic Arts
NHL 96
DOS1995 Electronic Arts
NFL Pro League Football
DOS1989 Micro Sports
NFL Football
DOS1992 Distinctive Software
NetStorm: Islands at War
Windows XP/98/951997
Nectaris
DOS1995 Hudson soft
Nebulus
DOS1988 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 comput...
Navy Seal
DOS1989 Cosmi Corporation
Nanotank
Windows 3.x1993
Mystical
DOS1990protected Infogrames
Mychess
DOS1984 The Software Toolworks
Murder on the Zinderneuf
DOS1984 Free Fall Associates
Ms. Pac-Man
DOS1984 Atarisoft
Ms. Pac-Man is a classic arcade game released by Midway in 1982 (1984 for DOS) as a follow-up to the original Pac-Man (1980), developed by Namco. While its core gameplay is similar - navigating a maze, eating dots, and a...
Ms Pac PC
DOS1995remake Magicom Multimedia
Motor City
DOS1994 Max Design
Mortal Pong
DOS1995freeware
Moria
DOS1992freeware
Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol
Windows 3.x1995protected
Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol is fantasy RPG game released in 1995 for Windows 3.x, but it runs flawlessy even Windows XP (see this faq if you want to play Mordor in a virtual machine). Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol is a mix ...
Moraff's World
DOS1991 Moraffware