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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Star General
Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected4.1/5 Catware, Inc.
Star General is a turn-based strategy game developed by Catware and published by SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc.). It was released in 1996 for MS-DOS and later for Windows. The game is set in a science fiction universe where players take command of one of five different factions, each vying for control of the galaxy.In Star General, players comman...
Moebius
DOS19873.4/5 Origin Systems
Conflict: Korea
DOS1992protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Pinball Magic
DOS19903.7/5 Loriciels
Roadwar Europa
DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Tracon for Windows
Windows 3.x19933.8/5 Wesson International
8088 Othello
DOS19853.6/5
Beneath Apple Manor
DOS1983freeware4.1/5
Shard of Spring
DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow
DOS19923.4/5 Sierra On-Line
Hexxagon
DOS19934.1/5 Argo Games
Monopoly (Adam Stevens)
DOS19983.9/5
The Final Crusade of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software
War of the Lance
DOS1990protected4.3/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Ant Attack!
DOS1994freeware3.7/5 Dataware
Pango
DOS1983remake4/5
Poko Memorial: 18 Hole Miniature Golf
DOS19872.3/5 Gold Hill Software
Action in the North Atlantic
DOS19894.1/5 General Quarters Software
Warriors of Legend
DOS19934.1/5 Synergistic Software
X-Fighter
DOS19873.1/5 Wordworks Software
Rescue Rover 2
DOS1991protected3.1/5 id software
Super ZZT
DOS19923.3/5 Epic MegaGames
Risk
Windows 3.x19913.8/5 Azeroth
Football Glory
DOS1995freeware3.8/5 Croteam
Backgammon
DOS19843.1/5 IBM
Zoom!
DOS19884.2/5
Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation
DOS19883.1/5 Cases Computer Simulations
Vampyr: Talisman of Invocation
DOS19893.4/5
DarkSpyre
DOS19903.8/5 Event Horizon
EGA-Roids
DOS1986freewareremake3.7/5 Designer Software