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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Royal Flush Pinball
DOS1994 Amtex
Dungeon Explorer
DOS1990
Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow
DOS1992 Sierra On-Line
Gengis Khan
DOS1989 KOEI
Moraff's Revenge
DOS1988 Moraffware
Air Force Commander
DOS1992 Impressions Games
Aspetra
DOS1996
BitStorm
DOS1999
Bolo Ball
DOS1992 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...
Bombuzal
DOS1989 Image Works
D-Day: The Beginning of the End
DOS1994 Impressions Games
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 3
DOS1992 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Evets
DOS1988freeware SAck Enterprizes
FlixMix
DOS1993 Celeris
Frontline
DOS1990 Cases Computer Simulations
Iron Lord
DOS1990 UBI Soft
IVAN (Iter Vehemens ad Necem)
DOSWindows 10/11LinuxMac OS2001freeware
King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table
DOS1994 MVP Software
Last Action Hero
DOS1993 Psygnosis
Last Duel: Inter Planet War 2012
DOS1989 Capcom
Legends of Murder: Volume 1 - Stonedale Castle
DOS1989protected Softdisk Publishing
Moraff's World
DOS1991 Moraffware
Mystical
DOS1990protected Infogrames
Postman Pat 3: To the Rescue
DOS1992 Alternative Software
Postman Pat 3 is a retro video game based on the popular British children's television series Postman Pat. Released in 1992 by Alternative Software, it was available for platforms like the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64. In Postman Pat 3, players take on the role of Pat Clifton, the friendly postman from the show. Unlike earlier ga...
Rally Championships
DOS1994 Flair Software
Squarez Deluxe!
DOS1993freeware Adept Software
Super ZZT
DOS1992 Epic MegaGames
Tangled Tales
DOS1989 Origin Systems
The Big Three
DOS1989 SDJ Enterprises
The Civil War
DOS1995 Dagger Interactive Technologies