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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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Xenon

DOS19883.9/5 Bitmap Brothers

Xenon is an abandoned vertical scrolling classic shoot'em up developed by Bitmap Brothers and released in 1988 for DOS. It was also published for ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST, C64. Xenon was followed by the much acclaimed Xenon 2: Megablast.
Ms. Pac-Man

DOS19833.9/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
Fidelity Chessmaster 2100

DOS19893.9/5 Software Toolworks
Styx

DOS19843.9/5 Windmill Software
Dragons of Flame

DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold
Defender of the Crown

DOS1991protected3.9/5 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.
A Nightmare on Elm street

DOS19893.9/5 Westwood Studios
Pinball Illusions

DOS19953.8/5 Digital Illusions
Robotron 2084

DOS19833.8/5 Williams Entertainment
Loopz

DOS19903.8/5 Audiogenic
Risk: the World Conquest Game

DOS19893.8/5 Mastertronic
Color Lines

DOS19923.8/5 Gamos
Hack

DOS1984freeware3.8/5
Allan Border's Cricket

DOS19933.8/5 Audiogenic
Blasteroids

DOS19893.8/5 Atari
Exile III: Ruined World

Windows XP/98/95MacWindows 3.x1997freeware3.8/5 Spiderweb Software
Heirs to the Throne

DOS19923.8/5 German Design Group
Llamatron 2112

DOS19923.8/5 Llamasoft
Logo

DOS1990NSFW3.8/5 Starbyte Software
Mission: Mainframe

DOS19873.8/5
Omega

DOSLinux1988freeware3.8/5
Robbo

DOS1993freeware3.8/5 xLand Games
Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign

DOS19883.8/5 Cases Computer Simulations
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse

DOS1994protected3.8/5 Cyberlore studios
Into the Eagle's Nest

DOS19873.8/5 Pandora
Decision in the Desert

DOS19853.8/5 MicroProse Software
The Magic Candle 2: The Four and Forty

DOS19913.8/5 Mindcraft Software
Hillsfar

DOS1989protected3.8/5 Westwood Studios
Spirit of Excalibur

DOS19903.8/5 Synergistic Software
Annals of Rome

DOS19883.8/5 Personal Software Services