The most popular top down games

Top down games

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  SimCity

  DOSWindows 3.xWindows XP/98/951989protected4.1/5 Maxis

  SimCity (or SimCity Classic) is a popular city building simulation in which you, the mayor of a city, have to build a metropolis from the ground up. You can build police and fire departments, assign industrial, residential or commercial areas, manage power distribution, build ports and airports. Grow your city from village to metropolis and try to ...

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  Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar

  DOS1985freeware4.2/5 Origin Systems

  Ultima IV is remembered as one of the best Ultima games ever released, designed as usual by Richard Garriott. Garriott took the Ultima series to a whole new level by introducing the eight virtues: honesty, compassion, valor, justice, sacrifice, honor, spirituality, humility. Ultima IV started the trilogy known as "Age of Enlightenment".

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  Xenon 2: Megablast

  DOS19904.2/5 Bitmap Brothers

  Xenon 2: Megablast is a classic shoot'em up developed by Bitmap Brothers and released by Image Works in 1990 for DOS and for a plethora of other systems. Xenon was good, Xenon 2 was far better. Compared to today standards Xenon 2 is perhaps a mediocre shoot 'em up, but at the time every shooter fan loved it. Plus, it was developed by Bitmap Brother...

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  Sid Meier's Pirates!

  DOS1987protected4.1/5 MicroProse Software
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  Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2

  DOS19904.1/5 KOEI
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  Bomberman

  DOS19924.1/5 Hudson soft
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  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...

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  Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia

  Windows XP/98/951999protected4.2/5 New World Computing
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  BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception

  DOS19884.1/5 Westwood Studios
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  Death Rally

  DOS1996freeware4.1/5 Remedy Entertainment Ltd.
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  Italy 1990

  DOS19903.9/5 Tiertex Design Studios
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  Star Wars: Yoda Stories

  Windows XP/98/9519974.2/5 LucasArts
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  Warlords 3: Reign of Heroes

  Windows XP/98/9519974.3/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group

  Warlords 3: Reign of Heroes is an abandoned turn-based fantasy strategy game designed by Steve Fawkner, developed by SSG Strategic Studies Group and released by Red Orb Entertainment in 1997 for Windows. Warlords 3: Reign of Heroes is part of the Warlords game series and features quite a few multiplayer modes: from LAN to PBEM.

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  Empire Deluxe

  DOSWindows 3.x19934/5 White Wolf Productions
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  Micro Machines

  DOS19944.3/5 Codemasters

  Micro Machines is an abandoned racing game developed and released by Codemasters in 1994 based on the Micro Machines toy line. Micro Machines was published for DOS, but also for Amiga, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, NES, SEGA Master System and SNES. Codemasters released a sequel called Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament.

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  Rogue

  Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac19844.3/5 Artificial Intelligence Design

  Rogue is one of the first RPGs in the history of video gaming. It's a text-based dungeon crawler in which you have to fight your way in the dungeon to recover the Amulet of Yendor. Rogue became popular around 1980 on mainframes and later ported to various platforms, including DOS in 1984. Rogue is simply the father of all the roguelike games that c...

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  Jones in the Fast Lane

  DOS19914/5 Sierra On-Line

  Jones in the Fast Lane is the kind of game that you don't see often these days. It's a mix between a digital board game and a modern day life simulation. The goal of the game is to live the life of Jones, making choices about school, work, your home, etc. Graphics is a mix of cartonish and digitized characters, very reminishent of some of the best ...

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  Panzer General

  DOS1994protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

  Panger General is a turn based strategy wargame developed by SSI set in World War 2. The player can choose Axis or Allies and fight against the AI or another human player in more than 30 scenarios on a classic hex based map.

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  Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse

  DOS1994protected3.8/5 Cyberlore studios
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  Color Lines

  DOS19923.8/5 Gamos
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  Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures

  Windows 3.xMac19964.1/5 LucasArts
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  Gal Pani X

  Windows XP/98/952000freewareNSFW4.1/5

  Gal Pani X is an action-puzzle game reminiscent of the classic arcade Qix, developed by D2 and released in 2000 for Windows. Gal Pani X is an adult-themed Doujin game: it was made by fans and wasn't for profit.

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  Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny

  DOS19884.2/5 Origin Systems
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  Dark Reign 2

  Windows XP/98/952000protected4.3/5 Pandemic Studios
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  Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams

  DOS19914/5 Origin Systems

  Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams is an abandoned science fiction RPG designed by Jeff George, developed by Origin Systems and released in 1991 for DOS. Martian Dreams uses the Ultima VI engine to depict Mars in a top down perspective.

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  4Play

  Windows 3.x1995NSFW4.1/5
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  Mega lo Mania

  DOS19924.2/5 Sensible Software
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  Ambush at Sorinor

  DOS19933.7/5 Mindcraft Software
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  Gary Grigsby's War in Russia

  DOS1993protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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  Castle of the Winds

  Windows 3.x1993freeware4.2/5 SaadaSoft

  Castle of the Winds (1993, by Saadasoft) is a perfect example of an atypical roguelike (no ASCII, runs in Windows) turned into a liberated game. Surprisingly Castle of the Winds is still very playable to this day, if you can make it run under a recent version of Windows.