Top-down perspective

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).

Most popular top down games

Dune 2000

strategyWindows XP/98/95

PC-Man

actionDOS

Ultima 7 Part 1: The Black Gate

rpgDOS

Top down games

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Mychess

DOS19843.8/5 Software Toolworks
Mystical

DOS1990protected3.5/5 Infogrames
Navy Seal

DOS19894/5 Cosmi Corporation
Nebulus

DOS19884.1/5 Hewson Consultants
Nectaris

DOS19953.9/5 Hudson soft
NFL Football

DOS19924/5 Distinctive Software
NFL Pro League Football

DOS19894.3/5 Micro Sports
NHL 96

DOS19954.2/5 Electronic Arts
NHL Hockey

DOS19934/5 Electronic Arts
Night Mission Pinball

DOS19823.6/5 subLOGIC
No Greater Glory

DOSMac1991protected4.1/5
Nobunaga's Ambition

DOS19883.6/5 KOEI
Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS19893.8/5 KOEI
Nobunaga's Ambition 6

DOS19943.6/5 KOEI
North and South

DOS19904.2/5 Infogrames
Nuclear War

DOS19894/5 New World Computing

Nuclear War is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by Eric Hyman and Jon Van Caneghem. Nuclear War was developed and released by New World Computing in 1989 for Amiga and, later, for DOS, and it's loosely based on a card game of the same name. Nuclear War took a satirical approach to the grim possibility of a global nuclear war and succe...
Number Munchers

DOS19903.5/5 MECC
O-Pong

DOS19963.1/5
Ogre

DOS19864.2/5 Origin Systems
Omega

DOS19894/5 Origin Systems
Omega

DOSLinux1988freeware4.3/5
Operation: Inner Space

Windows 3.x1994protected3.6/5 Software Dynamics
Othello

DOS19864.1/5
Oubliette

DOS19833.3/5
Outbound

Windows XP/98/952001freeware4.3/5
Over the Reich

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x19963.8/5 Big Time Software
OverKill

DOS1992freeware3.9/5 Tech-Noir
Oxyd

DOS19923.9/5 Dongleware
Pac Gal

DOS19823.1/5
Pac PC

DOS1995freewareremake3.8/5