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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Exile III: Ruined World
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1997freeware3.9/5 Spiderweb Software
Full Metal Planete
DOSMac OS19903.9/5 Hitech Productions
Gnome Alone
DOS19913.9/5
Mission: Mainframe
DOS19873.9/5
Monopoly (Adam Stevens)
DOS19983.9/5
Ms. Pac-Man
DOS19833.9/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
Xenon
DOS19883.9/5 Bitmap Brothers
Xenon, released in 1988, was a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed by The Bitmap Brothers. Xenon was initially released for the Commodore 64, and later, it was ported to other platforms, including DOS, the ZX Spectrum and Amiga.In Xenon, players control a futuristic tank-like craft and navigate through levels filled with enemy ve...
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.
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.
Bandit Kings of Ancient China
DOS19893.9/5 KOEI
Styx
DOS19843.9/5 Windmill Software
Mad Paradox
DOS1994NSFW3.9/5 Queen Soft
Dragons of Flame
DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold
War in Middle Earth
DOS19893.9/5 Synergistic Software
War in Middle-earth is a real-time strategy game developed by Synergistic Software and published by Melbourne House. It was released in 1988 for various platforms including the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC.The game is based on J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy world of Middle-earth, specifically focusing on the events depicted in "The Lor...
Hillsfar
DOS1989protected3.8/5 Westwood Studios
Blasteroids
DOS19893.8/5 Atari
Blasteroids is a video game developed and released by Atari, Inc. in 1987. It's a sequel to the classic arcade game Asteroids, which was released in 1979. In Blasteroids, players control a spaceship tasked with destroying asteroids and enemy ships while avoiding collisions and enemy fire. The game features updated graphics and gameplay mechanics co...
Carrier Strike: South Pacific 1942-44
DOS1992protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Defender of the Crown
DOS1991protected3.8/5 Cinemaware
Defender of the crown is a strategy game set in the middle ages, in England. You control a Saxon and must fight Normans to control the country. The player can conquest territories, lay siege to castles, join tournaments, rescue damsels.
Color Lines
DOS19923.8/5 Gamos
Annals of Rome
DOS19883.8/5 Personal Software Services
Loopz
DOS19903.8/5 Audiogenic
Total Carnage
DOS19943.8/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
Hack
DOS1984freeware3.8/5
Risk: the World Conquest Game
DOS19893.8/5 Mastertronic
Decision at Gettysburg
DOS19903.8/5 TigLon Software
Decision in the Desert
DOS19853.8/5 MicroProse Software
Heirs to the Throne
DOS19923.8/5 German Design Group
Llamatron 2112
DOS19923.8/5 Llamasoft
Logo
DOS1990NSFW3.8/5 Starbyte Software
Monopoly
DOS19853.8/5