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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Batalia
DOS19862.8/5 The Right Brothers
Panzer Battles
DOS19903.1/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Liverpool: the Computer Game
DOS19923.3/5 Arc Developments
Tiny Skweeks
DOS19923.5/5 Kalisto Entertainment
MacArthur's War
DOS19903.9/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw
DOS19893/5 Oxford Mobius
Fort Apache
DOS19923.6/5 Impressions Games
BitStorm
DOS19993.3/5
Dragon Lord
DOS19904.2/5 Spotlight Software
Turbo Gomoku
DOS19853/5
Chess88
DOS19844/5
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...
Last Action Hero
DOS19933/5 Psygnosis
Lord of Destruction
DOS19942.9/5 Rebelsoft
APB
DOS19894/5 Atari
Dungeons of Kroz 2
DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software
Reaping The Dungeon
DOS19934/5 Frontline Software
Mah Jongg Solitaire
DOS19874/5 Arcanum Computing
Demon Stalkers
DOS19893.6/5 Micro Forté
O-Pong
DOS19963.1/5
Alien Olympics
DOS19942.7/5 Dark Technologies
Dragons of Flame
DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold
PHM Pegasus
DOS19873.3/5 LucasArts
Omega
DOS19894/5 Origin Systems
Omega is an abandoned science fiction themed strategy game developed and released by Origin Systems in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Omega is a rare example of a programming game about robots.
Vengeance of Excalibur
DOS19913.9/5 Synergistic Software
Mirror Magic
Windows XP/98/95Linux1995freeware3.6/5
Caesars Palace
DOS19893.7/5 Virgin Interactive
Styx
DOS19843.9/5 Windmill Software
Cosmic Crusader
DOS19823.7/5 Funatics Software
Gapper
DOS19864/5