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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Hard Nova
DOS1990 Malibu Interactive
Hard Nova is a sci-fi role-playing game (RPG) developed by Malibu Interactive and published by Electronic Arts. Released in 1990, it is available on platforms such as the DOS, Amiga, Atari ST. Hard Nova is set in a distant future ...
Astro Dodge
DOS1982 Digital Marketing Corporation
Astro Dodge (1982) is basically Frogger — in space. You control a tiny spacecraft tasked with dodging endless waves of meteors, space debris, and possibly your own questionable life choices. There’s no shooting, no exp...
Wild West World
DOS1991 Software 2000
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 3
DOS1992 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Battle for Atlantis
DOS1990
Fancy a war under the sea? Battle for Atlantis (1990) asks the age-old question: what if submarines had grudges? This top-down, action strategy title throws you into a deep-sea turf war with clunky controls and a soundtrack that f...
Gengis Khan 2: Clan of the Gray Wolf
DOS1992 KOEI
Dungeon Explorer
DOS1990
Vampyr: Talisman of Invocation
DOS1989
Carrier Strike: South Pacific 1942-44
DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
If you ever wanted to command the Pacific fleet without getting wet, Carrier Strike is your game. Set during WWII, it’s a turn-based wargame where numbers, radar, and weather reports matter more than reflexes. You’ll p...
Clue Master Detective
DOS1989 Dalali Software
Clue Master Detective is an abandoned strategy game developed by Dalali Software and released by Leisure Genius in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Clue Master Detective is based on the well known board game Clue (als...
Spiritual Warfare
DOS1993protected Wisdom Tree
Robbo
DOS1993freeware xLand Games
Master of Orion 3
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003protected Quicksilver Software
Entomorph: Plague Of The Darkfall
Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1995protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
MacArthur's War
DOS1990 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown
DOS1988 Mindscape
Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown is an abandoned simulation game with role-playing elements developed by Mindscape and released in 1988 exclusively for DOS. Visions of the Aftermath is one of the few early examples of games ...
Merchant Colony
DOS1991 Impressions Games
Daffy Duck PI: The Case of the Missing Letters
DOS1991 Riedel Software Productions
Jackal
DOS1989 Konami
Ishido: The Way of the Stones
DOSMac OS1990 Publishing International
Risk
Windows 3.x1991 Azeroth
Exile: Escape from the Pit
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995freeware Spiderweb Software
Exile: Escape from the Pit is a turn-based role-playing game (RPG) developed by Spiderweb Software. It is part of the Exile series, originally released in the mid-1990s. This game was later remade and re-released as Avernum: Escap...
Iron Cross
DOS1994 New World Computing
Hannibal
DOS1993 Starbyte Software
Billy The Kid
DOS1990 Level 9 Computing
Saddle up, pardner. Billy The Kid puts you in the dusty boots of the infamous outlaw himself. This is the Wild West, DOS-style — pixel pistols, wanted posters, and dialogue that might make a cactus wince. Whether you’r...
The Big Three
DOS1989 SDJ Enterprises
Front Lines
DOS1994 Impressions Games
The Blue & the Gray
DOS1993 Impressions Games
Super Bomber Blast Beta
DOS1997remake
Fleet Command
DOS1999protected Sonalysts