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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Legions

Windows 3.xMac19943.7/5 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

DOS19942.6/5 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.

Lost Adventures of Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.3/5 Apogee Software

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

DOS19904/5 Golden Goblins

MacArthur's War

DOS19903.9/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Machiavelli the Prince

DOS1995protected4.2/5 Holistic Design

Mad Mix

DOS19884.3/5 Topo Soft

Mad Paradox

DOS1994NSFW3.8/5 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/98/95Mac2003protected4.2/5 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 ...

MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy

DOS19903.9/5 Paragon Software

MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy is a science fiction role-playing game (RPG) released in 1990. The Zhodani Conspiracy is the first installment in the MegaTraveller series and was developed by Paragon Software.MegaTraveller 1 takes place in the Traveller universe's Third Imperium, a vast interstellar empire. The plot revolves around a c...

MegaTraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients

DOS19913.6/5 Paragon Software

MegaTraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients is the sequel to MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy. It is a science fiction role-playing game (RPG) released in 1991, developed by Paragon Software. Like its predecessor, MegaTraveller 2 is set in the expansive Traveller universe.In MegaTraveller 2, players continue their journey in the Third Imperium, ...