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).

Sort by:

The Final Crusade of Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software

Crossfire

DOS19823.7/5 Sierra On-Line

Battle Isle

DOS1991protected3.7/5 Blue Byte Software

Ambush at Sorinor

DOS19933.7/5 Mindcraft Software

Pinball Magic

DOS19903.7/5 Loriciels

Gary Grigsby's War in Russia

DOS1993protected3.7/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Cap Man

Windows XP/98/9519993.7/5

Fire Power

DOS19883.7/5 Silent Software

Fort Apache

DOS19923.7/5 Impressions Games

Gengis Khan

DOS19893.7/5 KOEI

Gengis Khan 2: Clan of the Gray Wolf

DOS19923.7/5 KOEI

Gone Fishing

DOS19893.7/5 Interstel Corporation

Kingdom of Kroz

DOS1988freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software

Legions

Windows 3.xMac19943.7/5 Mindscape

Nanotank

Windows 3.x19933.7/5

Operation Market Garden

DOS1985protected3.7/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Operation: Inner Space

Windows 3.x1994protecteddemo3.7/5 Software Dynamics

Reunion

DOS19943.7/5 Dinamic Multimedia

Sensible World of Soccer 96/97

DOS1996protected3.7/5 Sensible Software

Shamus

DOS19843.7/5 Synapse Software

SSN-21 Seawolf

DOS19943.7/5 Electronic Arts

The Ancient Art of War in the Skies

DOS19923.7/5 Evryware

The Lost Patrol

DOS19913.7/5 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.

Visual Star Trek

DOS19903.7/5

Pac-girl

DOS19823.7/5 Magicom Multimedia

Battlestar

Windows 3.x1996freeware3.7/5

Moraff's Revenge

DOS19883.7/5 Moraffware

Akalabeth: World of Doom

DOS1981freeware3.6/5 California Pacific Computer

Akalabeth is a RPG game allegedly developed in just one summer by the Ultima franchise creator Richard Garriott. It's a dungeon crawler with wire-frame black and white graphics. Akalabeth is played in both first person 3d and top down view points.

Dungeons of Kroz 2

DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software

MegaTraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients

DOS19913.6/5 Paragon Software

MegaTraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients is the sequel to MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy. It is a science fiction role-playing game (RPG) released in 1991, developed by Paragon Software. Like its predecessor, MegaTraveller 2 is set in the expansive Traveller universe.In MegaTraveller 2, players continue their journey in the Third Imperium, ...