Top-down perspective
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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Legend of the Silver Talisman
DOS1996freeware3.9/5 Inter-Active Arts
Legend of the Sword
DOS19884/5 Silicon Software
Legends of Murder: Volume 1 - Stonedale Castle
DOS1989protected3.5/5 Softdisk Publishing
Legions
Windows 3.xMac OS19944/5 Mindscape
Lego Loco
Windows XP/98/9519984.1/5 Intelligent Games
Liverpool: the Computer Game
DOS19923.3/5 Arc Developments
Llamatron 2112
DOS19923.8/5 Llamasoft
Locomotion
DOS19924.2/5 Prestige Softwareentwicklung
Logo
DOS1990NSFW3.8/5 Starbyte Software
Loopz
DOS19903.8/5 Audiogenic
Lord of Destruction
DOS19942.9/5 Rebelsoft
Lords of Conquest
DOS19873.6/5 Eon Software
Lords of Midnight: The Citadel
DOS19954.3/5 Maelstrom Games
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.
Lords of the Realm 2
DOSWindows XP/98/95WindowsMac OS1996protected4.2/5 Impressions Games
Lords of the Realm II is a medieval-themed real-time strategy (RTS) and turn-based strategy game developed by Impressions Games and published by Sierra On-Line. Released in 1996, it is the second game in the "Lords of the Realm" series. Players manage their kingdom by balancing resources such as food, weapons, and gold, engaging in diplomacy w...
Lost Adventures of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.3/5 Apogee Software
M.U.D.S. - Mean Ugly Dirty Sport
DOS19904.1/5 Golden Goblins
MacArthur's War
DOS19903.9/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Machiavelli the Prince
DOS1995protected4.1/5 Holistic Design
Mad Mix
DOS19884.3/5 Topo Soft
Mad Paradox
DOS1994NSFW3.9/5 Queen Soft
Mageslayer
Windows XP/98/9519974.1/5 Raven Software
Mah Jongg Solitaire
DOS19874/5 Arcanum Computing
Major Stryker
DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware4/5 Apogee Software
Marble Cooking
DOS1994NSFW3.5/5 Negative
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...
Master of Orion 3
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003protected4.2/5 Quicksilver Software
Mech Brigade
DOS1987protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Mech War
DOS19924.1/5
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 ...