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).

Most popular top down games

Dune 2000

strategyWindows XP/98/95

Civilization 2

strategyWindows XP/98/95

Grand Theft Auto 2

action-adventureWindows XP/98/95

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Mad Paradox

DOS1994NSFW3.9/5 Queen Soft
Alex Higgins World Snooker

DOS19863.9/5 Lindensoft
Bandit Kings of Ancient China

DOS19893.9/5 KOEI
Bass Tour

DOS19923.9/5
Chess

DOS19813.9/5 International PC Owners
Disciples of Steel

DOS19943.9/5
International Soccer

DOS19943.9/5 Zeppelin Games
MacArthur's War

DOS19903.9/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Siege

DOS19923.9/5 Mindcraft Software
The Chaos Engine

DOS1994protected3.9/5 Bitmap Brothers
Autoduel

DOS19853.9/5 Origin Systems

Autoduel is an abandoned top-down open world post apocalyptic RPG/driving game hybrid designed by Chuck Bueche and Richard Garriott of Ultima fame. Autoduel was developed by Origin Systems and was released in 1985 for DOS, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, C64, Apple II, Macintosh, Amiga. Autoduel is based on a board game designed by Steve Jackson himself.
Blood & Magic

DOS19963.9/5 Tachyon Studios
Legend of the Silver Talisman

DOS1996freeware3.9/5 Inter-Active Arts
V for Victory: D-day Utah Beach

DOS1991protected3.9/5 Atomic Games
Atomino

DOS19913.9/5 Play Byte
Kasparov's Gambit

DOS19933.9/5 Heuristic software
D-Zone

DOS19923.9/5
Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS19893.9/5 KOEI
Robot Odissey

DOS19853.9/5 The Learning Company
Astro Fire

DOS1994freewareremake3.9/5 ORT Software
Kaiser

DOS19923.9/5
Solar Winds 2: Galaxy

DOS19933.9/5 Stone Interactive Media
Ante-Up at The Friday Night Poker Club

DOS19903.9/5
Empire II: The Art of War

DOSWindows XP/98/9519953.9/5 White Wolf Productions
Gnome Alone

DOS19913.9/5
Megatraveller 1: the Zhodani conspiracy

DOS19903.9/5 Paragon Software
Monopoly (Adam Stevens)

DOS19983.9/5
Super Speed

DOS19953.9/5
Uridium

DOS19883.9/5 Hewson Consultants

Uridium is an abandoned DOS science fiction side-scrolling shoot'em up designed by Andrew Braybrook. It was developed by Hewson Consultants and published by Mindscape for DOS in 1988. The original C64 version of Uridium won the Golde Joystick Award in 1986.
Warp Rogue

WindowsLinux2004freeware3.9/5