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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Akalabeth: World of Doom

DOS1981freeware3.6/5 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.

Rollo and the Brush Brothers

DOS19833.6/5 Windmill Software

Dungeons of Kroz 2

DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software

Frogger Jr.

DOS19843.6/5

Lords of Conquest

DOS19873.6/5 Eon Software

Alien Breed

DOS1993protected3.6/5 Team 17

AlphaMan

DOS19953.6/5

Caverns of Kroz

DOS1989freeware3.6/5 Apogee Software

Kampfgruppe

DOS1987protected3.6/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Khalaan

DOS19903.6/5 Chip

Astro Dodge

DOS19823.6/5 Digital Marketing Corporation

Cloud Kingdoms

DOS19903.6/5 Logotron

Color Buster

DOS19923.6/5

Demon Stalkers

DOS19893.6/5 Micro Forté

Dragonflight

DOS19913.6/5 Thalion

Dungeons of Kroz

DOS1989freeware3.6/5 Apogee Software

Flightmare

DOS1984freeware3.6/5

Fort Apache

DOS19923.6/5 Impressions Games

Gazza 2

DOS19913.6/5 Empire Interactive

Silly Master Blaster

DOS19853.6/5

Space 1889

DOS19903.6/5 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.