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).

Most popular top down applications

Dune 2000

strategyWindows XP/98/95

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

strategyDOS

Grand Theft Auto

action-adventureDOS, Windows XP/98/95

Top down applications

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Pinball World

DOS19953.7/5 Spidersoft Limited
Subtrade: Return to Irata

DOS19933.9/5 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.
MacArthur's War

DOS19903.9/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Daffy Duck PI: The Case of the Missing Letters

DOS19913.2/5 Riedel Software Productions
Renegade Legion Interceptor

DOS1990protected4.3/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Vlad Tepes Dracula

Windows XP/98/9519972.5/5 ComputerHouse
Daemonsgate

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1993protected3.9/5 Imagitec Design
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1

DOS19884/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Black Moon Chronicles

DOS1999protected4.1/5 Cryo Interactive Entertainment
Felony!

DOS19843/5 BrainBank
Shamus

DOS19843.7/5 Synapse Software
Global Effect

DOS19924.1/5 Millennium Interactive
Hannibal

DOS19933.3/5 Starbyte Software
Deadly Racer

DOS19943.8/5
Gulf Strike

DOS19864.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
World tour golf

DOS19853.7/5 Electronic Arts
Moebius

DOS19873.4/5 Origin Systems
Sargon V: World Class Chess

DOS19913.9/5 Activision
Infiltrator

DOS19874.2/5 Chris Gray Enterprises
Warp Rogue

WindowsLinux2004freeware3.9/5
No Greater Glory

DOSMac1991protected4.2/5
Caesars Palace

DOS19893.7/5 Virgin Interactive
Mech Brigade

DOS1987protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Backgammon

DOS19862.7/5
Encyclopedia of War: Ancient Battles

DOS19882.8/5 Cases Computer Simulations
Super Speed

DOS19953.9/5
NHL Hockey

DOS19934.1/5 Electronic Arts
Dungeons of Kairn

DOS19893.7/5
M.U.D.S. - Mean Ugly Dirty Sport

DOS19904/5 Golden Goblins
Monopoly

DOS19854.1/5