Top-down perspective sorted by release date

Top down games

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  Ultima 2: Revenge of the Enchantress

  DOS19834/5 Origin Systems

  The second chapter of the Ultima saga is much similar to the first one (same top down visual, same dungeon 3d visual, same gameplay), although there are many small improvements. The series begins to take the shape of the detailed, deep, rpg saga that gamers will always remember.

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  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...

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  Backgammon

  DOS19843.1/5 IBM
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  Beast

  DOS19843.8/5
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  Castle Adventure

  DOS1984freeware4.2/5
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  Castle Wolfenstein

  DOS19844.2/5 Muse Software
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  Chess88

  DOS19844/5
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  Computer Diplomacy

  DOS19843.6/5 Avalon Hill
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  DND

  DOS19844.1/5
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  Felony!

  DOS19843/5 BrainBank
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  Flightmare

  DOS1984freeware3.6/5
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  Frogger Jr.

  DOS19843.7/5
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  Gremlins

  DOS19842.8/5 Atari
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  Hack

  DOS1984freeware3.8/5
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  ICON: Quest for the Ring

  DOS19843.6/5 Macrocom
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  Murder on the Zinderneuf

  DOS19843.3/5 Free Fall Associates
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  Mychess

  DOS19843.8/5 Software Toolworks
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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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  Shamus

  DOS19843.7/5 Synapse Software
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  Soko-Ban

  DOS19844.1/5 ASCII Corporation
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  Spy Hunter

  DOS19843.6/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
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  Styx

  DOS19843.9/5 Windmill Software
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  The Ancient Art of War

  DOS19843.9/5 Evryware
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  Xonix

  DOS1984remake4/5
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  8088 Othello

  DOS19853.6/5
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  Air Traffic Controller

  DOS19854.1/5 Cascoly Software
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  Antix

  DOS1985remake4.1/5
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  Autoduel

  DOS19853.9/5 Origin Systems

  Autoduel is an abandoned top-down open world post apocalyptic RPG/driving game hybrid designed by Chuck Bueche and Richard Garriott of Ultima fame. Autoduel was developed by Origin Systems and was released in 1985 for DOS, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, C64, Apple II, Macintosh, Amiga. Autoduel is based on a board game designed by Steve Jackson himself.

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  Battle of Antietam

  DOS1985protected3.5/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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  Beyond Castle Wolfenstein

  DOS19854.1/5 Muse Software