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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DOS1990 Audiogenic

Boxer Rebellion

DOS1982

Mine Shaft

DOS1983 Sierra On-Line

Ishido: The Way of the Stones

DOSMac OS1990 Publishing International

Beyond the Black Hole

DOS1989 The Software Toolworks

NFL Football

DOS1992 Distinctive Software

X-Fighter

DOS1987 Wordworks Software

Rescue at Rigel

DOS1983 Epyx

Soviet

DOS1990 Opera Soft

Conflict: Europe

DOS1989 Personal Software Services

Conflict Europe is an abandoned turn-based top-down strategy game set in Europe. The game was developed by Personal Software Services and released by Mirrorsoft in 1989 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.

King's Table: The Legend of Ragnarok

DOS1993protected Imagitec Design

Conquest of Japan

DOS1992 Impressions Games

Subtrade: Return to Irata

DOS1993 Century Interactive

Subtrade: Return to Irata is an abandoned science fiction business simulation game developed by Century Interactive and published by Boeder Software in 1993 for Amiga and later ported to DOS. Subtrade is an updated multiplayer clone of the classic M.U.L.E., set underwater on an oceanic world.