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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XQuest

DOS1994remake3.5/5

Amazing Maze

DOS19833.2/5

Blues Brothers RPG

Windows XP/98/952004freeware3.8/5

Prophecy: the Fall of Trinadon

DOS19893.4/5 Activision

Spy Hunter

DOS19843.7/5 Midway Manufacturing Company

Capture the Flag

DOS19933.3/5

Frogger Jr.

DOS19843.6/5

Axis and Allies: Iron Blitz

Windows XP/98/9519994.2/5 Wargaming West

Ground Control

Windows XP/98/952000protected4/5 Massive Entertainment

Ground Control is a strategy game developed by Massive Entertainment and released by Sierra On-Line in 2000. More precisely Ground Control is a real time tactical game with a sci-fi setting.

Full Metal Planete

DOSMac OS19903.9/5 Hitech Productions

Final Frontier

DOS19892.8/5 Bubble Bus Software

Pinball World

DOS19953.9/5 Spidersoft Limited

Tangled Tales

DOS19893.5/5 Origin Systems

Demon's Winter

DOS1989protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Over the Reich

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x19963.9/5 Big Time Software

The Lost Patrol

DOS19913.8/5 Astros Productions

The Lost Patrol is an abandoned multi-type action game set in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war. The Lost Patrol was developed by Astros Productions (DOS version) and released by Ocean Software in 1991 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.

ALF: The First Adventure

DOS19873/5 Box Office

Robotron 2084

DOS19833.9/5 Williams Entertainment

Block O Mania

DOS19894.1/5 Crystal Shard

Action in the North Atlantic

DOS19894.1/5 General Quarters 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.