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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Carnage
DOS19934.1/5 Warped Minds
Beneath Apple Manor
DOS1983freeware4.1/5
Hannibal
DOS19933.5/5 Starbyte Software
Pac Gal
DOS19823/5
8088 Othello
DOS19853.6/5
Conflict: Korea
DOS1992protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Shard of Spring
DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Pinball Magic
DOS19903.7/5 Loriciels
Hexxagon
DOS19934.1/5 Argo Games
Warriors of Legend
DOS19934.1/5 Synergistic Software
War of the Lance
DOS1990protected4.3/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Poko Memorial: 18 Hole Miniature Golf
DOS19872.3/5 Gold Hill Software
Monopoly (Adam Stevens)
DOS19983.9/5
Roadwar Europa
DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow
DOS19923.4/5 Sierra On-Line
Vampyr: Talisman of Invocation
DOS19893.4/5
Pango
DOS1983remake4/5
EGA-Roids
DOS1986freewareremake3.7/5 Designer Software
Backgammon
DOS19843.1/5 IBM
DarkSpyre
DOS19903.8/5 Event Horizon
Super ZZT
DOS19923.3/5 Epic MegaGames
Risk
Windows 3.x19913.8/5 Azeroth
Zoom!
DOS19884.2/5
Rescue Rover 2
DOS1991protected3.1/5 id software
X-Fighter
DOS19873.1/5 Wordworks Software
Football Glory
DOS1995freeware3.8/5 Croteam
The Final Crusade of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software
Shamus
DOS19843.7/5 Synapse Software
Action in the North Atlantic
DOS19894.1/5 General Quarters Software
Heirs to the Throne
DOS19923.8/5 German Design Group