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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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 ...
Antix
DOS1985remake4.3/5
Alex Higgins World Snooker
DOS19863.7/5 Lindensoft
Ms Pac PC
DOS1995remake4.3/5 Magicom Multimedia
Super Pac-Man
DOS19823.5/5 Namco
Wayne Gretzky Hockey
DOS19893.9/5 Bethesda Softworks
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...
Exile III: Ruined World
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1997freeware3.9/5 Spiderweb Software
Super Speed
DOS19953.9/5
Gengis Khan 2: Clan of the Gray Wolf
DOS19923.7/5 KOEI
ICON: Quest for the Ring
DOS19843.6/5 Macrocom
B-24 Combat Simulator
DOS1987protected3.5/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Annals of Rome
DOS19883.8/5 Personal Software Services
Traffic department 2192
DOS1994freeware3.7/5 P Squared
Legend of the Silver Talisman
DOS1996freeware3.9/5 Inter-Active Arts
Flying Tigers 2
DOS19943.3/5
Dragonflight
DOS19913.6/5 Thalion
Billy The Kid
DOS19903.9/5 Level 9 Computing
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1
DOS19884/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Color Buster
DOS19923.6/5
Battle Isle 93: The Moon of Chromos
DOS19934/5 Blue Byte Software
Scavengers of the Mutant World
DOS19883.9/5 Interstel Corporation
Mageslayer
Windows XP/98/9519974.1/5 Raven Software
Gary Grigsby's Pacific War
DOS1992protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Siege
DOS19924/5 Mindcraft Software
Carrier Strike: South Pacific 1942-44
DOS1992protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
D-Day: The Beginning of the End
DOS19943.5/5 Impressions Games
Atomino
DOS19913.9/5 Play Byte
The Hunt for Red October
DOSMac OS19874.1/5 Oxford Digital Enterprises
Battlestar
Windows 3.x1996freeware3.8/5