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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Blue Angel 69

DOS1989NSFW3.6/5

OverKill

DOS1992freeware3.9/5 Tech-Noir

John Madden Football

DOS19894/5 Electronic Arts

John Madden Football was the first of a series of american football sports games sponsored by the coach of the same name. The first John Madden Football is an abandoned game developed and released by Electronic Arts in 1988 for Apple II and Commodore 64 and later released for DOS (in 1989). The Madden series became extremely popular and the sequels...

Phantasie 1

DOS1987protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

The Chaos Engine

DOS1994protected4.2/5 Bitmap Brothers

A-Maze

DOS19894.2/5 New Era Software

Unnatural Selection

DOS19933.9/5 Maxis

The Civil War

DOS19873.3/5 Avalon Hill

Logo

DOS1990NSFW3.8/5 Starbyte Software

Conflict: Europe

DOS19894.2/5 Personal Software Services

Conflict Europe is an abandoned turn-based top-down strategy game set in Europe. The game was developed by Personal Software Services and released by Mirrorsoft in 1989 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.