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).
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Decision in the Desert
DOS1985 MicroProse Software
Akalabeth: World of Doom
DOS1981freeware 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.
MegaTraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients
DOS1991 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, ...
AlphaMan
DOS1995
Alien Breed
DOS1993protected Team 17
Battle of Antietam
DOS1985protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Caves of Thor
DOS1989 Apogee Software
Decker
Windows 10/112002freeware
Fire Power
DOS1988 Silent Software
Gone Fishing
DOS1989 Interstel Corporation
Kingdom of Kroz
DOS1988freeware Apogee Software
La Colmena
DOS1992NSFW Opera Soft
Moraff's Morejongg
Windows XP/98/951992 Moraffware
Operation Market Garden
DOS1985protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Search and Destroy
DOS1988 Broderbund
Shamus
DOS1984 Synapse Software
Shamus is a maze action game developed by William Mataga and published by Synapse Software in 1982. The game became popular on various home computer platforms of the early 1980s. In Shamus, players control a detective navigating through a labyrinth filled with enemies and traps, aiming to defeat the villain, The Shadow. The gameplay involves explor...
SSN-21 Seawolf
DOS1994 Electronic Arts
Super Bomber Blast Beta
DOS1997remake
The Ancient Art of War in the Skies
DOS1992 Evryware
Visual Star Trek
DOS1990
Pac-girl
DOS1982 Magicom Multimedia
Lords of Conquest
DOS1987 Eon Software
Sky Shark
DOS1989 Toaplan
Rollo and the Brush Brothers
DOS1983 Windmill Software
Dungeons of Kroz 2
DOS1989 Apogee Software
Mines of Titan
DOS1989 Westwood Studios
Mines of Titan (also known as Mars Saga for other platforms) is an abandoned single-player RPG with a sci-fi setting (you're going to Mars!). Mines of Titan was developed by Westwood Studios and released by Infocom in 1989 for DOS, Apple II and Commodore 64.
Monopoly
DOS1985
Caverns of Kroz
DOS1989freeware Apogee Software
Khalaan
DOS1990 Chip
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 1889 is loosely based on the tabletop game of the same name.