Top-down perspective sorted by release date
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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Empire Soccer 94
DOS1994 Graftgold
Flying Tigers
DOS1994 Ticsoft
Flying Tigers is an abandoned vertical-scrolling sci-fi themed shoot 'em up game developed and released by Ticsoft in 1994 for MS-DOS only. Flying Tigers is the first chapter of the two parts Flying Tigers video game series.
Flying Tigers 2
DOS1994
Front Lines
DOS1994 Impressions Games
Highway Hunter
DOS1994 Safari Software
International Soccer
DOS1994 Zeppelin Games
Iron Cross
DOS1994 New World Computing
King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table
DOS1994 MVP Software
Kingdoms of Germany
DOS1994 Realism Entertainment
Knights of Xentar
DOS1994NSFW MegaTech Software
Legions
Windows 3.xMac OS1994 Mindscape
Lord of Destruction
DOS1994 Rebelsoft
Lords of the Realm
DOSWindows XP/98/951994protected Impressions Games
Lords of the Realm is top-down kingdom simulation game set in medieval Europe (England and Germany), designed by Christopher J. Foster and David Lester, developed by Impressions Games and released 1994 for DOS, Windows and Amiga.
Mad Paradox
DOS1994NSFW Queen Soft
Marble Cooking
DOS1994NSFW Negative
Master of Magic
DOSWindows XP/98/951994protected SimTex
Master of Magic is a turn based 4x strategy game developed by SimTex and published by the well know Microprose, very similar to Civilization, with a fantasy twist. You play as a wizard and your objective is to evolve your race from a small settlement to a bursting empire. To do so, you can produce military units to fight other computer controlled p...
Micro Machines
DOS1994 Codemasters
Micro Machines is an abandoned racing game developed and released by Codemasters in 1994 based on the Micro Machines toy line. Micro Machines was published for DOS, but also for Amiga, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, NES, SEGA Master System and SNES. Codemasters released a sequel called Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament.
Motor City
DOS1994 Max Design
Nobunaga's Ambition 6
DOS1994 KOEI
Operation Europe: Path to Victory 1939-45
DOS1994 KOEI
Operation: Inner Space
Windows 3.x1994protecteddemo Software Dynamics
Panzer General
DOS1994protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Panger General is a turn based strategy wargame developed by SSI set in World War 2. The player can choose Axis or Allies and fight against the AI or another human player in more than 30 scenarios on a classic hex based map.
Pinball Dreams 2
DOS1994protected 21st Century Entertainment
Pinball Fantasies
DOS1994 Digital Illusions
Pizza Tycoon
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1994protected Software 2000
Pong Kombat
DOS1994freeware
Power Dolls
DOS1994 Kogado Software Products
Power Drive
DOS1994 Rage Games
Raiden
DOS1994 Seibu Kaihatsu Inc.
Raiden is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up game developed by Seibu Kaihatsu and first released in arcades in 1990 and later for many home computers and consoles. Raiden follows the classic vertical scrolling shoot 'em up format. Players control a spaceship known as the R-9C "Red-Ray" and navigate vertically scrolling levels filled with wave...
Rally Championships
DOS1994 Flair Software