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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Tracon 2

DOS19903.3/5 Wesson International

Lawn Mower

DOS19873.8/5

OverKill

DOS1992freeware3.9/5 Tech-Noir

Battle for Normandy

DOS1983protected3.8/5 Tactical Design Group

Iron Cross

DOS19943.5/5 New World Computing

Demon's Winter

DOS1989protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Speedball

DOS19884.2/5 Bitmap Brothers

Styx

DOS19843.9/5 Windmill Software

Dungeons of Kroz

DOS1989freeware3.6/5 Apogee Software

APB

DOS19894/5 Atari

Air Traffic Controller

DOS19854.2/5 Cascoly Software

Color Buster

DOS19923.6/5

Daemonsgate

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1993protected3.8/5 Imagitec Design

Lost Adventures of Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.3/5 Apogee Software

Vlad Tepes Dracula

Windows XP/98/9519973.3/5 ComputerHouse

DarkSpyre

DOS19903.8/5 Event Horizon

Conflict: Korea

DOS1992protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Bass Tour

DOS19924/5

PHM Pegasus

DOS19873.3/5 LucasArts

Power Drive

DOS19944.2/5 Rage Games

Conquest of Japan

DOS19924.1/5 Impressions Games

Bass Duel

DOS19933.7/5

Superhero League of Hoboken

DOS1994protected3.9/5 Legend Entertainment

Mychess

DOS19843.8/5 The Software Toolworks

Rotox

DOS19914.2/5 Creative Materials

Gone Fishing

DOS19893.7/5 Interstel Corporation

7 colors

DOS19913.5/5 Gamos

Crusade in Europe

DOS19853.9/5 MicroProse Software

Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown

DOS19883.4/5 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 involving survival in a post-apocalyptic environment.