Top-down perspective sorted by release date
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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Ultima 7 Part 1: The Black Gate
DOS1992 Origin Systems
Ultima VII: The Black Gate is a top-down RPG where you, the Avatar, have to find out what's happening in Britannia by solving quests, meeting interesting NPCs and fight hordes of headleass monsters. The land of Britannia is shaken by mysterious earthquakes, a new religion (the Fellowship) is spreading and is replacing the old virtues, and who is th...
UnReal World v. 3.20
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1992freeware
V for victory: Velikiye Luki
DOS1992protected Atomic Games
WinRisk
Windows 3.x1992
18th Airborne
DOS1993
Alien Breed
DOS1993protected Team 17
Allan Border's Cricket
DOS1993 Audiogenic
Ambush at Sorinor
DOS1993 Mindcraft Software
Bass Duel
DOS1993
Battle Isle 93: The Moon of Chromos
DOS1993 Blue Byte Software
Black Hole
DOS1993
Bloodstone: an Epic Dwarven Tale
DOS1993 Mindcraft Software
Bravo Romeo Delta
DOS1993
Burntime
DOS1993 Max Design
Capture the Flag
DOS1993
Carnage
DOS1993 Warped Minds
Castle of the Winds
Windows 3.x1993freeware SaadaSoft
Castle of the Winds is a fantasy roguelike role-playing game developed by SaadaSoft in the early 1990s. It was designed for Windows 3.x and is notable for being one of the earliest graphical RPGs for that platform. The game features a top-down perspective and incorporates elements of dungeon crawling, exploration, and character development.The game...
Clash of Steel
DOS1993protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Daemonsgate
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1993protected Imagitec Design
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
DOS1993protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Eight Ball Deluxe
DOSMac OS1993 Littlewing
Empire Deluxe
DOSWindows 3.x1993 White Wolf Productions
Empire Deluxe is a classic turn-based strategy game that was originally released in the early 1990s. Developed by Mark Baldwin and Bob Rakowsky of White Wolf Productions and published by New World Computing, it is a successor to the game Empire, which was created by Walter Bright in the late 1970s. The game is set on a world map, where pl...
Epic Pinball
DOSMac OS1993protected Digital Extremes
Fantasy Empires
DOS1993protected Silicon Knights
Fields of Glory
DOS1993protected MicroProse Software
FlixMix
DOS1993 Celeris
Gary Grigsby's War in Russia
DOS1993protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Global Domination
DOS1993 Impressions Games
Goal!
DOS1993 Dini & Dini Productions
God of Thunder
DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware Adept Software
God of Thunder is a classic computer game developed by Adept Software and released in 1993. It's a puzzle platformer with a fantasy theme. In the game, you control Thor, the Norse god of thunder, on a quest to save Midgard (Earth) from the evil god Loki and his minions.The gameplay involves navigating through various levels filled with obstacles, e...