The most popular top down games

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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Vlad Tepes Dracula

Windows XP/98/9519973.3/5 ComputerHouse

Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1

DOS19884/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Kingdom of Kroz

DOS1988freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software

Annals of Rome

DOS19883.8/5 Personal Software Services

Exile III: Ruined World

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

Tempest 2000

DOS1996remake4.2/5 Atari

Tempest 2000 is a video game developed by Llamasoft and published by Atari Corporation. It was released in 1994 for DOS, Mac, the Atari Jaguar console, etc. Tempest 2000 is an enhanced remake of the original Tempest, which was released in arcades in 1981.In Tempest 2000, players control a claw-shaped ship that moves around the edges of geometric sh...

The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter

DOS19903.8/5 Mindscape

B-24 Combat Simulator

DOS1987protected3.5/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Super Speed

DOS19953.9/5

Gengis Khan 2: Clan of the Gray Wolf

DOS19923.7/5 KOEI

Traffic department 2192

DOS1994freeware3.7/5 P Squared

Color Buster

DOS19923.6/5

Legend of the Silver Talisman

DOS1996freeware3.9/5 Inter-Active Arts

Trog

DOS19904.3/5 Midway Manufacturing Company

Rings of Medusa

DOS19904/5 Starbyte Software

Rings of Medusa is a strategy / RPG developed by the German studio Starbyte Software. It was released in 1989 for various platforms including the Commodore 64, Amiga, and MS-DOS. In Rings of Medusa, players assume the role of a hero tasked with defeating the evil sorceress Medusa who has taken control of the city of Olympus. The game world is ...