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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Highway Fighter

DOS19954/5 Safari Software

Decision at Gettysburg

DOS19903.8/5 TigLon Software

Sword Quest 1: The Search

DOS19923/5

Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan

DOS19904.1/5 New World Computing

Dungeon Explorer

DOS19903.5/5

Boxer Rebellion

DOS19823.1/5

Dungeon of Shalan

DOS19883.5/5

The Civil War

DOS19953.5/5 Dagger Interactive Technologies

Gone Fishing

DOS19893.7/5 Interstel Corporation

Spiritual Warfare

DOS1993protected3.8/5 Wisdom Tree

Kurtan

DOS19903.4/5 TbiliSoft

Frogger Jr.

DOS19843.6/5

Sword of the Samurai

DOS1989protected4/5 MicroProse Software

Trivial Pursuit

DOS19893.4/5

Trivial Pursuit is a popular trivia board game that was adapted into a computer game for various platforms, including DOS. In the game, players answer trivia questions from various categories in order to collect pie pieces that correspond to those categories. The goal is to collect all the pie pieces and complete a full pie before your opponents.

Battle Master

DOS19913.5/5 Personal Software Services

Battle Master is a fantasy themed abandoned action-strategy game hybrid (with real-time tactics elements) developed by Personal Software Services. Battle Master was released by Mirrorsoft in 1991 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST and Genesis.

King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table

DOS19943.3/5 MVP Software

Renegade Legion Interceptor

DOS1990protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Highway Hunter

DOS19943.2/5 Safari Software

Exile II: Crystal Souls

Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1996freeware3.9/5 Spiderweb Software

Redhook's Revenge

DOS19933.3/5 ImagiSoft

Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown

DOS19883.3/5 Mindscape

Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown is an abandoned simulation game with role-playing elements developed by Mindscape and released in 1988 exclusively for DOS. Visions of the Aftermath is one of the few early examples of games involving survival in a post-apocalyptic environment.