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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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Mega lo Mania

DOS19924.2/5 Sensible Software

Mega lo Mania, also known as Mega-Lo-Mania: The Battle for Elysium in some regions, is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Sensible Software and published by Image Works. It was originally released in 1991 for various platforms, including the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and later on other systems like the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive). The ...

Mech War

DOS19924.1/5

Mech Brigade

DOS1987protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Master of Orion 3

Windows XP/98/95Mac2003protected4.2/5 Quicksilver Software

Master of Magic

DOSWindows XP/98/951994protected4.2/5 SimTex

Master of Magic is a turn based 4x strategy game developed by SimTex and published by the well know Microprose, very similar to Civilization, with a fantasy twist. You play as a wizard and your objective is to evolve your race from a small settlement to a bursting empire. To do so, you can produce military units to fight other computer controlled p...

Marble Cooking

DOS1994NSFW3.5/5 Negative

Major Stryker

DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware3.9/5 Apogee Software

Mah Jongg Solitaire

DOS19874/5 Arcanum Computing

Mageslayer

Windows XP/98/9519974.1/5 Raven Software

Mad Paradox

DOS1994NSFW3.8/5 Queen Soft

Mad Mix

DOS19884.3/5 Topo Soft

Machiavelli the Prince

DOS1995protected4.2/5 Holistic Design

MacArthur's War

DOS19903.9/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group

M.U.D.S. - Mean Ugly Dirty Sport

DOS19904/5 Golden Goblins

Lost Adventures of Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.3/5 Apogee Software

Lords of the Realm

DOSWindows XP/98/951994protected4/5 Impressions Games

Lords of the Realm is top-down kingdom simulation game set in medieval Europe (England and Germany), designed by Christopher J. Foster and David Lester, developed by Impressions Games and released 1994 for DOS, Windows and Amiga.