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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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
Trivial Pursuit
DOS1989
Trivial Pursuit is a popular trivia board game that was adapted into a computer game for various platforms, including DOS. In the game, players answer trivia questions from various categories in order to collect pie pieces th...
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...
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
The Blue & the Gray
DOS1993 Impressions Games
Super Bomber Blast Beta
DOS1997remake
Eight Ball Deluxe
DOSMac OS1993 Littlewing
Arcade Pool
DOS1994 Team 17
Arcade Pool (1994) is like playing a game of billiards in your best friend’s basement—if your best friend happened to be a DOS machine with a serious competitive streak. It’s shockingly addictive, with physics th...
Fleet Command
DOS1999protected Sonalysts
Chessmaster 3000
DOS1991 The Software Toolworks
Evets
DOS1988freeware SAck Enterprizes
Pac-girl
DOS1982 Magicom Multimedia
Heirs to the Throne
DOS1992 German Design Group
Computer Diplomacy
DOS1984 Avalon Hill
Moebius
DOS1987 Origin Systems
Patton vs. Rommel
DOS1987 Electronic Arts
Scavengers of the Mutant World
DOS1988 Interstel Corporation
Ivan 'Iron Man' Stewart's Super Off Road
DOS1990 Leland
Ivan 'Iron Man' Stewart's Super Off Road is an abandoned diagonal-down off-road racing game developed by Leland and released by Virgin Interactive in 1990 for DOS, but also published for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64, ZX Spect...
Rollo and the Brush Brothers
DOS1983 Windmill Software
Austerlitz 1805
DOS1989 Cornerstone Software
Dungeons of Kroz
DOS1989freeware Apogee Software
Mychess
DOS1984 The Software Toolworks
Flying Tigers
DOS1994 Ticsoft
Flying Tigers is an abandoned vertical-scrolling sci-fi themed shoot 'em up game developed and released by Ticsoft in 1994 for MS-DOS only. Flying Tigers is the first chapter of the two parts Flying Tigers video game series.
Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine
DOS1991protected id software
Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine is a science fiction action oriented platform game designed by Tom Hall, developed by id Software and released by Apogee Software in 1991 for DOS only. Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Mach...
7 colors
DOS1991 Gamos
7 Colors is one of those puzzle games that sounds simple on paper but ends up consuming your entire afternoon before you even realize it. Released in 1991 for DOS, it throws you into a digital turf war where the weapon of choice i...