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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Space 1889

DOS1990 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 ...

ALF: The First Adventure

DOS1987 Box Office

Remember ALF? The sarcastic alien who really had it in for cats? Well, in ALF: The First Adventure, you get to live the dream—or nightmare—of controlling the furry menace himself. Released in 1987 for DOS, this Pac-Man...

Zoop

DOS1995 Hookstone

Imagine if Tetris, Columns, and a pack of highlighters had a baby. That’s Zoop. You’re in the center of the screen, and colorful shapes are marching toward you from all sides like angry abstract art. Your job? Blast th...

Iron Cross

DOS1994 New World Computing

Hannibal

DOS1993 Starbyte Software

Visual Star Trek

DOS1990

Evets

DOS1988freeware SAck Enterprizes

Backgammon

DOS1984 IBM

Rollo and the Brush Brothers

DOS1983 Windmill Software

Dungeons of Kroz

DOS1989freeware Apogee Software

Highway Fighter

DOS1995 Safari Software

Return to Kroz

DOS1990freeware Apogee Software

Kroz returns, and with it, your CRT monitor’s worst nightmare: ASCII graphics! Return to Kroz takes you back to a time when @ meant “you,” and everything else was trying to kill you. Using only your wits, a whip,...

Solar hockey league

DOS1992 Bethesda Softworks

Caverns of Kroz

DOS1989freeware Apogee Software

Rescue Rover

DOS1991protected id software

The Hunt for Red October

DOSMac OS1987 Oxford Digital Enterprises

Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1

DOS1988 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Monopoly (Adam Stevens)

DOS1998

Black Moon Chronicles

DOS1999protected Cryo Interactive Entertainment

Based on a French comic series, Black Moon Chronicles (1999) is what you'd get if a fantasy novel and a real-time strategy game had a slightly awkward baby. The art is dark, the tone is darker, and the gameplay is surprisingly com...

Ikari III: The Rescue

DOS1990 SNK Corporation

Reaping The Dungeon

DOS1993 Frontline Software

Tracon for Windows

Windows 3.x1993 Wesson International

Mission: Mainframe

DOS1987

Star Trek Combat Arena

DOS1989

Sito Pons 500cc Grand Prix

DOS1990 Zigurat Software

Champion of the Raj

DOS1991 Personal Software Services

Battlestar

Windows 3.x1996freeware

No, not that Battlestar. Battlestar (1996) is more obscure than a reboot that never happened. Set in deep space with a top-down view and UI only a Windows 3.x user could love, it mixes tactical combat and sci-fi storytelling like ...