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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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1

DOS19884/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Bass Tour

DOS19924/5

Tiny Skweeks

DOS19923.5/5 Kalisto Entertainment

Windwalker (Moebius 2)

DOS19892.8/5 Origin Systems

Frontline

DOS19903.5/5 Cases Computer Simulations

Lost Adventures of Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.3/5 Apogee Software

Indenture

DOS1995remake4.1/5

Commander Keen 3: Keen Must Die!

DOS1990protected4.2/5 id software

8088 Othello

DOS19853.6/5

Daffy Duck PI: The Case of the Missing Letters

DOS19913.2/5 Riedel Software Productions

Dungeon of Shalan

DOS19883.5/5

Trog

DOS19904.3/5 Midway Manufacturing Company

Monopoly Deluxe

DOSWindows 3.x19924.1/5 Parker Brothers

Monopoly Deluxe is an abandoned turn-based top-down Monopoly adaptation of the classic board game, developed by Parker Brothers and released by Virgin Interactive in 1992. Monopoly Deluxe was published for DOS, Windows 3.1, and Macintosh.

Space 1889

DOS19903.6/5 Paragon Software

Space 1889 is an abandoned top down RPG developed by Paragon Software and released in 1990 for DOS, Atari ST and Amiga. Space 1889 setting is classic science fiction, but is set in the Victorian. It's worth noting that Space 1889 is loosely based on the tabletop game of the same name.