Abandonware DOS title

Top-down perspective sorted by year, newest first

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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Dungeons of Kairn

DOS19893.6/5
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Dungeons of Kroz

DOS1989freeware3.6/5 Apogee Software
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Dungeons of Kroz 2

DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software
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Face Off!

DOS19894.1/5 MindSpan
Face Off! is an abandoned hockey sports game developed by MindSpan (known for their Hardball series) and released by Gamestar in 1989 for DOS and also for Commodore 64. Face Off supports multiplayer in competitive or cooperative modes.
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Fast Food Dizzy

DOS19894/5 Codemasters
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Fidelity Chessmaster 2100

DOS19893.8/5 The Software Toolworks
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Final Frontier

DOS19892.8/5 Bubble Bus Software
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Gauntlet 2

DOS19894.1/5 Atari
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Gengis Khan

DOS19893.7/5 KOEI
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Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World

DOS19893.8/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Gone Fishing

DOS19893.7/5 Interstel Corporation
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Grand Monster Slam

DOS19894/5 Golden Goblins
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Heavy Barrel

DOS19893.4/5 Data East
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Hillsfar

DOS1989protected3.8/5 Westwood Studios
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House of Cards

DOS19893.3/5
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If It Moves, Shoot It!

DOS19893.3/5 Emerald Software
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Jackal

DOS19894.1/5 Konami
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Joan of Arc

DOS19894/5 Chip
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John Madden Football

DOS19894/5 Electronic Arts
John Madden Football was the first of a series of american football sports games sponsored by the coach of the same name. The first John Madden Football is an abandoned game developed and released by Electronic Arts in 1988 for Apple II and Commodore 64 and later released for DOS (in 1989). The Madden series became extremely popular and the sequels...
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Knights of Legend

DOS19894.2/5 Origin Systems
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Last Duel: Inter Planet War 2012

DOS19893.5/5 Capcom
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Legacy of the Ancients

DOS19893.7/5 Quest Software
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Legends of Murder: Volume 1 - Stonedale Castle

DOS1989protected3.5/5 Softdisk Publishing
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Meteors

DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software
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Mines of Titan

DOS19893.6/5 Westwood Studios
Mines of Titan (also known as Mars Saga for other platforms) is an abandoned single-player RPG with a sci-fi setting (you're going to Mars!). Mines of Titan was developed by Westwood Studios and released by Infocom in 1989 for DOS, Apple II and Commodore 64.
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Monday Night Football

DOS19894.1/5 Park Place Productions
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Navy Seal

DOS19894/5 Cosmi Corporation
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NFL Pro League Football

DOS19894.3/5 Micro Sports
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Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS19893.9/5 KOEI
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Nuclear War

DOS19894/5 New World Computing
Nuclear War is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by Eric Hyman and Jon Van Caneghem. Nuclear War was developed and released by New World Computing in 1989 for Amiga and, later, for DOS, and it's loosely based on a card game of the same name. Nuclear War took a satirical approach to the grim possibility of a global nuclear war and succe...