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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Chess
DOS1981 International PC Owners
Blitzkrieg: Battle at the Ardennes
DOS1990 Command Simulations
Rescue Rover 2
DOS1991protected id software
Carnage
DOS1993 Warped Minds
Crusade in Europe
DOS1985 MicroProse Software
Tempest 2000
DOS1996remake Atari
Tempest 2000 is a video game developed by Llamasoft and published by Atari Corporation. It was released in 1994 for DOS, Mac, the Atari Jaguar console, etc. Tempest 2000 is an enhanced remake of the original Tempest, which was released in arcades in 1981.In Tempest 2000, players control a claw-shaped ship that moves around the edges of geometric sh...
Iron Cross
DOS1994 New World Computing
Tiny Skweeks
DOS1992 Kalisto Entertainment
7 colors
DOS1991 Gamos
Bass Duel
DOS1993
Wayne Gretzky Hockey
DOS1989 Bethesda Softworks
Challenge of the Five Realms
DOS1992protected MicroProse Software
A Line in the Sand
DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Mah Jongg Solitaire
DOS1987 Arcanum Computing
Fantasy Empires
DOS1993protected Silicon Knights
Pinball World
DOS1995 Spidersoft Limited
NFL Pro League Football
DOS1989 Micro Sports
Conquest of Japan
DOS1992 Impressions Games
Blue Angel 69
DOS1989NSFW
Sword of Aragon
DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Battlestar
Windows 3.x1996freeware
Pac PC
DOS1995freewareremake
Goal!
DOS1993 Dini & Dini Productions
Action in the North Atlantic
DOS1989 General Quarters Software
Empire II: The Art of War
DOSWindows XP/98/951995 White Wolf Productions
King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table
DOS1994 MVP Software
Billy The Kid
DOS1990 Level 9 Computing
Shamus
DOS1984 Synapse Software
Shamus is a maze action game developed by William Mataga and published by Synapse Software in 1982. The game became popular on various home computer platforms of the early 1980s. In Shamus, players control a detective navigating through a labyrinth filled with enemies and traps, aiming to defeat the villain, The Shadow. The gameplay involves explor...
The Civil War
DOS1987 Avalon Hill
War in Middle Earth
DOS1989 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...