The best 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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18th Airborne

DOS19933.9/5

Clash of Steel

DOS1993protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Exile II: Crystal Souls

Windows XP/98/95MacWindows 3.x1996freeware3.9/5 Spiderweb Software

King's Bounty

DOSMac19903.9/5 New World Computing

Ms. Pac-Man

DOS19833.9/5 Midway Manufacturing Company

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

DOS19893.9/5 KOEI

Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM) v1.1

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1996freeware3.9/5

Crusade in Europe

DOS19853.9/5 MicroProse Software

OverKill

DOS1992freeware3.9/5 Tech-Noir

Arrakis

DOS20003.9/5

4Play

Windows 3.x1995NSFW3.9/5

4Play is a multi-player board-like strategy party-game for adults released for Windows 3.1 in 1995. 4Play is a board-game very similar to Monopoly in which players have to perform certain (adult) actions in response to events happening on the board.