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Top-down view party-based RPGs

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.

Most popular top-down party-based RPG games

Top-down party-based RPG games

  • magiccandle2-6
    DOS19913.8/5 Mindcraft Software
  • magiccandle3-5
    DOS19924/5 Mindcraft Software
  • temple-elemental-evil-04
    Windows XP/98/95Mac2003protected4.1/5 Troika Games
  • tunnels-and-trolls-02
    DOS19904.2/5 New World Computing
  • ultima1-3
    DOS19874.1/5 Origin Systems

    This is the first of the very popular RPG saga Ultima. The setting is the land of Sosaria, the enemy to defeat is Mondain. It's a classic cRPG. The wilderness and cities are represented from a top down perspective, while dungeons can be explored in a first person 3d view.

  • ultima2-08
    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.

  • ultima3-2
    DOS19854.1/5 Origin Systems
  • ultima4-2
    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".

  • ultima5-1
    DOS19884.2/5 Origin Systems
  • ultima6-3
    DOS1990protected4.3/5 Origin Systems
  • ultima7-2
    DOS19924.3/5 Origin Systems

    Ultima VII: The Black Gate is a top-down RPG where you, the Avatar, have to find out what's happening in Britannia by solving quests, meeting interesting NPCs and fight hordes of headleass monsters. The land of Britannia is shaken by mysterious earthquakes, a new religion (the Fellowship) is spreading and is replacing the old virtues, and who is th...

  • ultima7part2-9
    DOS19934.1/5 Origin Systems

    After the well received Ultima 7 The Black Gate, Origin decided that their Ultima engine could be used for one more game. Ultima 7 Part 2: Serpent Isle begins right after The Black Gate ends. This time the Avatar travels to a whole new land, far away from the usual Britannia. Serpent Isle brings its own charm to the series; exploring new lands...

  • martiandreams-9
    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.

  • wasteland-1
    DOS1988protected3.9/5 Interplay Productions
  • savageempire-6
    DOS1990freeware4/5 Origin Systems

    After the success of Ultima 6: The False Prophet, Origin decided to "create worlds" not part of the popular Ultima series (strictly speaking) using the same engine of Ultima 6. They came up with two games: The Savage Empire and Martian Dreams. The Savage Empire is set in a stone age-like world and features prehistoric tribes, dinosaurs, insectoid a...