The best 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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Vengeance of Excalibur

DOS19913.9/5 Synergistic Software

Action Fighter

DOS19893.9/5 Sega

Scavengers of the Mutant World

DOS19883.9/5 Interstel Corporation

The Magic Candle 3

DOS19923.9/5 Mindcraft Software

Donkey BAS

DOS19813.9/5 Microsoft

Nobunaga's Ambition 6

DOS19943.9/5 KOEI

Outbound

Windows XP/98/952001freeware3.9/5

V for victory: Velikiye Luki

DOS1992protected3.9/5 Atomic Games

Boston Bomb Club

DOS19913.9/5 Silmarils

Kasparov's Gambit

DOS19933.9/5 Heuristic software

Sito Pons 500cc Grand Prix

DOS19903.9/5 Zigurat Software

Into the Eagle's Nest

DOS19873.9/5 Pandora

Unnatural Selection

DOS19933.9/5 Maxis

Azalta: Cult of the Raven

DOS19963.9/5

OverKill

DOS1992freeware3.9/5 Tech-Noir

Oxyd

DOS19923.9/5 Dongleware

Italy 1990

DOS19903.9/5 Tiertex Design Studios

The Aethra Chronicles

DOS19943.9/5

The Aethra Chronicles is not a well know fantasy RPG, but it deserves some praise. It was developed by only one person (Micheal Lawrence) and, as the title implies, was intended to be the first volume of a saga. Unfortunately, volume two and three were never made. For a shareware game, Aethra was pretty solid and is still loved by the ones who play...

Subtrade: Return to Irata

DOS19933.9/5 Century Interactive

Subtrade: Return to Irata is an abandoned science fiction business simulation game developed by Century Interactive and published by Boeder Software in 1993 for Amiga and later ported to DOS. Subtrade is an updated multiplayer clone of the classic M.U.L.E., set underwater on an oceanic world.

Keys to Maramon

DOS19903.9/5 Mindcraft Software

Cap Man

Windows XP/98/9519993.9/5

Chess

DOS19813.9/5 International PC Owners

King's Bounty

DOSMac OS19903.9/5 New World Computing

Super Speed

DOS19953.9/5

V for Victory: D-day Utah Beach

DOS1991protected3.9/5 Atomic Games

Uridium

DOS19883.9/5 Graftgold

Uridium is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was originally developed by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986 for various home computer platforms (including MS-DOS). In Uridium, players control a spaceship known as the Manta, and the objective is to destroy a series of enemy spacecraft, as well as ground-based inst...