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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Hexxagon

DOS19934.1/5 Argo Games

Demon Stalkers

DOS19893.6/5 Micro Forté

Number Munchers

DOS19903.6/5 MECC

Total Annihilation Kingdoms

Windows XP/98/951999protected4.1/5 Cavedog Entertainment

Roadwar Europa

DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan

DOS19974.1/5 Papyrus Design Group

Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow

DOS19923.4/5 Sierra On-Line

Army Men 2

Windows XP/98/951998protected4/5 The 3DO Company

Action Fighter

DOS19893.9/5 Sega

World tour golf

DOS19853.6/5 Electronic Arts

Acquire

DOS19893.9/5 IBM

People's General

Windows XP/98/951998protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Sword Quest 2: Tale of the Talisman

DOS19933.6/5

Exile: Escape from the Pit

Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995freeware3.9/5 Spiderweb Software

Visual Star Trek

DOS19903.7/5

Gary Grigsby's Pacific War

DOS1992protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Epidemic!

DOS1983protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Pyramids of Egypt

DOS19894/5 Ideas From the Deep

Goal!

DOS19933.9/5 Dini & Dini Productions

Gengis Khan 2: Clan of the Gray Wolf

DOS19923.7/5 KOEI

Gulf Strike

DOS19864.2/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Oxyd

DOS19923.9/5 Dongleware

Lost Adventures of Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.3/5 Apogee Software

ICON: Quest for the Ring

DOS19843.6/5 Macrocom

Dark Reign 2

Windows XP/98/952000protected3.9/5 Pandemic Studios

Face Off!

DOS19894.1/5 MindSpan

Face Off! is an abandoned hockey sports game developed by MindSpan (known for their Hardball series) and released by Gamestar in 1989 for DOS and also for Commodore 64. Face Off supports multiplayer in competitive or cooperative modes.

Robotron 2084

DOS19833.9/5 Williams Entertainment

Warcraft: Orcs and Humans

DOS1994protecteddemo4.2/5 Blizzard Entertainment

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is the first real-time fantasy strategy game from Blizzard Entertainment. Two separate story lines (Orcs and Humans) evolve with 12 scenarios per side telling the tale of the battle for the Kingdom of Azeroth. Players must mine gold and chop wood in order to construct buildings and create units. Each side tries to destro...

The Chaos Engine

DOS1994protected4.2/5 Bitmap Brothers

Blues Brothers RPG

Windows XP/98/952004freeware3.9/5