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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The Taking of Beverly Hills

DOS19914/5 Off The Wall Productions

Fort Apache

DOS19923.6/5 Impressions Games

BitStorm

DOS19993.3/5

Dragon Lord

DOS19904.2/5 Spotlight Software

Panzer Battles

DOS19903.1/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Liverpool: the Computer Game

DOS19923.3/5 Arc Developments

Turbo Gomoku

DOS19853/5

MacArthur's War

DOS19903.9/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw

DOS19893/5 Oxford Mobius

Demon Stalkers

DOS19893.6/5 Micro Forté

Lord of Destruction

DOS19942.9/5 Rebelsoft

Chess88

DOS19844/5

Reaping The Dungeon

DOS19934/5 Frontline Software

Dragons of Flame

DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold

Mah Jongg Solitaire

DOS19874/5 Arcanum Computing

Alien Olympics

DOS19942.7/5 Dark Technologies

APB

DOS19894/5 Atari

Tiny Skweeks

DOS19923.5/5 Kalisto Entertainment

PHM Pegasus

DOS19873.3/5 LucasArts

Dungeons of Kroz 2

DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software

Bolo Ball

DOS19923.5/5 Soleau Software

Bolo Ball is a DOS game from the mid-1990s. It features a physics-based gameplay where the objective is to knock opponent balls out of an arena. When you start the game, you find yourself in a 2D arena set against a starry, space-like background. You control a colorful ball, which, despite being a 2D sprite, appears somewhat three-dimensional due t...