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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Entomorph: Plague Of The Darkfall
Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1995protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
When Two Worlds War
DOS19933.6/5 Impressions Games
Operation Europe: Path to Victory 1939-45
DOS19942.5/5 KOEI
The Civil War
DOS19873.3/5 Avalon Hill
Prophecy: the Fall of Trinadon
DOS19893.4/5 Activision
TomeNET
Windows XP/98/95Linux2003freeware4.4/5
Gengis Khan
DOS19893.5/5 KOEI
Hexxagon 2
DOS19934/5 Argo Games
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
Global Effect
DOS19924.1/5 Millennium Interactive
WinRisk
Windows 3.x19924.1/5
Ascii Sector
WindowsLinuxDOS2007freeware4/5
Sargon V: World Class Chess
DOS19913.8/5 Activision
Chess
DOS19813.9/5 International PC Owners
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.
AlphaMan
DOS19953.6/5
Galaxy
DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
TV Sports: Basketball
DOS1990freeware4.1/5 Cinemaware
Blasteroids
DOS19893.8/5 Atari
Blasteroids is a video game developed and released by Atari, Inc. in 1987. It's a sequel to the classic arcade game Asteroids, which was released in 1979. In Blasteroids, players control a spaceship tasked with destroying asteroids and enemy ships while avoiding collisions and enemy fire. The game features updated graphics and gameplay mechanics co...
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.