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The most popular top-down party-based RPG games

Party-based role-playing games played in a top down perspective were perhaps the first CRPGs to get some attention by fans of pen & paper RPGs. After all, a top down view is the ideal way to convey the feeling of looking at a map, and it's the perfect way to show every member of the party in a turn-based combat. The most fondly remembered top-down CRPGs of the golden age of gaming were perhaps the ones designed by the immortal Richard Garriott: the Ultima series. Let's not forget classics such as The Magic Candle, Dark Sun, Wasteland.
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The Temple of Elemental Evil

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003protected3.9/5 Troika Games
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Disciples of Steel

DOS19943.9/5
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Phantasie 1

DOS1987protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Challenge of the Five Realms

DOS1992protected3.7/5 MicroProse Software
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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.
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Exile III: Ruined World

Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1997freeware3.9/5 Spiderweb Software
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Dragonflight

DOS19913.6/5 Thalion
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Scavengers of the Mutant World

DOS19883.9/5 Interstel Corporation
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Exile: Escape from the Pit

Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995freeware3.9/5 Spiderweb Software
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Fountain of Dreams

DOS19904.1/5 Electronic Arts
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Keys to Maramon

DOS19903.9/5 Mindcraft Software
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Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan

DOS19904.1/5 New World Computing
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Exile II: Crystal Souls

Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1996freeware3.9/5 Spiderweb Software
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Dungeons of Kairn

DOS19893.6/5