Top-down perspective

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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Alien Breed: Tower Assault

DOS1994protected4.2/5 Team 17

Alien Olympics

DOS19942.7/5 Dark Technologies

Alien Syndrome

DOS19894.2/5 Sega

Allan Border's Cricket

DOS19934.3/5 Audiogenic

AlphaMan

DOS19953.6/5

Amazing Maze

DOS19833.2/5

Amberstar

DOS19924/5 Thalion

Amberstar is a fantasy old school RPG very similar to Ultima 6 that uses a top-down view for interiors and small locations and a first person pseudo 3D view for everything else. Unfortunately, the sequel (called Ambermoon) was available for Amiga only and no version existed for DOS or Windows. Amberstar was developed and published by Thalion for DO...

Ambush at Sorinor

DOS19933.8/5 Mindcraft Software

Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM) v1.1

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1996freeware3.9/5

Angband

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1992freeware4/5

Annals of Rome

DOS19883.8/5 Personal Software Services

Ant Attack!

DOS1994freeware3.7/5 Dataware

Ante-Up at The Friday Night Poker Club

DOS19903.9/5

Antix

DOS1985remake4.3/5

APB

DOS19894/5 Atari

Archon: the Light and the Dark

DOS19844.2/5 Free Fall Associates

Archon: The Light and the Dark is an abandoned DOS fantasy blend of strategy and action game, developed by Free Fall Associates and published for DOS by Electronic Arts in 1984. Archon and its sequels are a unique mix of chess-like turn-based strategy and arcade action games. Take chess and add the fact that every time two pieces land on the same s...