The best 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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Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor

Windows XP/98/9519973.8/5 Westwood Studios

Aspar GP Master

DOS19893.8/5 Dinamic Multimedia

Beast

DOS19843.8/5

Robot Rascals

DOS19873.8/5 Ozark Softscape

Battle for Normandy

DOS1983protected3.8/5 Tactical Design Group

Challenge of the Five Realms

DOS1992protected3.8/5 MicroProse Software

DarkSpyre

DOS19903.8/5 Event Horizon

Battlestar

Windows 3.x1996freeware3.8/5

Operation: Inner Space

Windows 3.x1994protecteddemo3.8/5 Software Dynamics

Battleship

DOS19833.8/5 Mirror Images Software

Exile III: Ruined World

Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1997freeware3.8/5 Spiderweb Software

Football Glory

DOS1995freeware3.8/5 Croteam

Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World

DOS19893.8/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Great Napoleonic Battles

DOS19913.8/5 Impressions Games

Gruntz

Windows XP/98/9519993.8/5 Monolith Productions

Hole in One

DOS19953.8/5 Really Interesting Software Company

Ishido: The Way of the Stones

DOSMac OS19903.8/5 Publishing International

La Colmena

DOS1992NSFW3.8/5 Opera Soft

PHM Pegasus

DOS19873.8/5 LucasArts

Spiritual Warfare

DOS1993protected3.8/5 Wisdom Tree

Temple of Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.8/5 Apogee Software

The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter

DOS19903.8/5 Mindscape

The Lost Patrol

DOS19913.8/5 Astros Productions

The Lost Patrol is an abandoned multi-type action game set in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war. The Lost Patrol was developed by Astros Productions (DOS version) and released by Ocean Software in 1991 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.