Abandonware DOS title

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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Tangled Tales

DOS19893.5/5 Origin Systems
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Tiny Skweeks

DOS19923.5/5 Kalisto Entertainment
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Titan

DOS19893.5/5 Titus Interactive
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Tubular Worlds

DOS19943.5/5
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Blitzkrieg: Battle at the Ardennes

DOS19903.5/5 Command Simulations
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7 colors

DOS19913.5/5 Gamos
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Temple of Apshai Trilogy

DOS19853.5/5 Epyx
The Temple of Apshai Trilogy is a series of classic role-playing games developed by Automated Simulations (later known as Epyx) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These games were among the earliest examples of computer-based RPGs and were influential in shaping the genre.The "Temple of Apshai Trilogy" was notable for its depth of gameplay and intr...
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8088 Othello

DOS19853.5/5
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Marble Cooking

DOS1994NSFW3.5/5 Negative
rackem-2

Rack 'em

DOS19883.5/5 Artech Studios
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B-24 Combat Simulator

DOS1987protected3.5/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Solar hockey league

DOS19923.5/5 Bethesda Softworks
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XQuest

DOS1994remake3.5/5
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Dungeon of Shalan

DOS19883.5/5
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Royal Flush Pinball

DOS19943.5/5 Amtex
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Heavy Barrel

DOS19893.4/5 Data East
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Thunderblade

DOS19893.4/5 Sega
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Unnecessary Roughness

DOS19933.4/5 Accolade
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Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown

DOS19883.4/5 Mindscape
Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown is an abandoned simulation game with role-playing elements developed by Mindscape and released in 1988 exclusively for DOS. Visions of the Aftermath is one of the few early examples of games involving survival in a post-apocalyptic environment.
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Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow

DOS19923.4/5 Sierra On-Line
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Solidarnosc

DOS19913.4/5 P. Z. Karen Co. Development Group
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Shawl

DOS19863.4/5 AcademySoft
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Kurtan

DOS19903.4/5 TbiliSoft
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Moebius

DOS19873.4/5 Origin Systems
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Prophecy: the Fall of Trinadon

DOS19893.4/5 Activision
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Caves of Thor

DOS19893.4/5 Apogee Software
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Grand Slam Bridge

DOS19863.4/5 Cybron corporation
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Trivial Pursuit

DOS19893.4/5
Trivial Pursuit is a popular trivia board game that was adapted into a computer game for various platforms, including DOS. In the game, players answer trivia questions from various categories in order to collect pie pieces that correspond to those categories. The goal is to collect all the pie pieces and complete a full pie before your opponents.
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Yacht Racing Simulator

DOS19863.4/5
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Pack-Man

DOS1983remake3.4/5 Magicom Multimedia