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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Space Federation

DOS1994 Interplay Productions

Bubble Trouble

Windows XP/98/951998

Tiny Skweeks

DOS1992 Kalisto Entertainment

Qix

DOS1989 Taito

Lost Adventures of Kroz

DOS1990freeware Apogee Software

Gone Fishing

DOS1989 Interstel Corporation

King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table

DOS1994 MVP Software

Billy The Kid

DOS1990 Level 9 Computing

Moebius

DOS1987 Origin Systems

Solidarnosc

DOS1991 P. Z. Karen Co. Development Group

Day of the Pharaoh

DOS1989 Chip

The Final Crusade of Kroz

DOS1990freeware Apogee Software

Flying Tigers 2

DOS1994

Entomorph: Plague Of The Darkfall

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1995protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Pac PC

DOS1995freewareremake

War of the Lance

DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Last Duel: Inter Planet War 2012

DOS1989 Capcom

Donkey BAS

DOS1981 Microsoft

Dragon Lord

DOS1990 Spotlight Software

Mageslayer

Windows XP/98/951997 Raven Software

Mageslayer is an action game developed by Raven Software and published by GT Interactive in 1997 for MS-DOS. It stands out as a top-down, hack-and-slash dungeon crawler inspired by games like Gauntlet, but with an original fantasy setting and a darker, more intense tone. The game uses the same engine as Take No Prisoners, another Raven Software tit...

IBM 9-Hole Miniature Golf

DOS1983 SoftSide Magazine

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...