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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Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign
DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations
When Two Worlds War
DOS1993 Impressions Games
Color Buster
DOS1992
Night Mission Pinball
DOS1982 subLOGIC
World tour golf
DOS1985 Electronic Arts
8088 Othello
DOS1985
There’s something oddly poetic about 8088 Othello, a 1985 take on the classic board game that feels like it was programmed by someone who had a personal vendetta against flashy graphics. The visuals are almost nonexistent, the sound is silent protest, and yet - somehow - it works. This is Othello in its purest form: black versus white, brain ...
Meteors
DOS1989 Apogee Software
7 colors
DOS1991 Gamos
7 Colors is one of those puzzle games that sounds simple on paper but ends up consuming your entire afternoon before you even realize it. Released in 1991 for DOS, it throws you into a digital turf war where the weapon of choice is… color. You pick a hue, spread it across the board like a rapidly multiplying fungus, and try to outmaneuver yo...
Temple of Apshai Trilogy
DOS1985 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...
Battle Master
DOS1991 Personal Software Services
In Battle Master (1991), you play as a heavily armored murder-hobo leading an army across a fantasy world that really doesn’t want you there. It’s part action-RPG, part tactical slog, with clunky pathfinding and surprisingly fun chaos. The graphics are gritty, the music growls, and the gameplay feels like someone fed an RTS through a me...
Capitalism Plus
DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected Enlight Software
Kingdoms of Germany
DOS1994 Realism Entertainment
Royal Flush Pinball
DOS1994 Amtex
Dungeon Explorer
DOS1990
Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow
DOS1992 Sierra On-Line
Tubular Worlds
DOS1994
Moraff's Revenge
DOS1988 Moraffware
BitStorm
DOS1999
1999’s BitStorm is what happens when someone decides to make a strategy game and forgets to put the brakes on the caffeine. It’s fast, it’s furious, and you’ll probably lose your first five games before realizing how to build anything that doesn’t explode in five seconds. Set in a vaguely cyberpunkish future full of fl...
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
Part puzzle, part platformer, part “what is even happening,” Bombuzal (1989, DOS) is a game where your job is to blow up every bomb on the screen—while not accidentally turning yourself into pixel confetti. Each level is a tiny tile-based puzzle of doom, requiring careful planning, reckless courage, and a few lucky guesses. The he...
Bubble Trouble
Windows XP/98/951998
D-Day: The Beginning of the End
DOS1994 Impressions Games
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 3
DOS1992 SSG Strategic Studies Group
England Championship Special
DOS1991 Tiertex Design Studios
Evets
DOS1988freeware SAck Enterprizes
Fisher-Price Firehouse Rescue
DOS1988 GameTek
FlixMix
DOS1993 Celeris
Frontline
DOS1990 Cases Computer Simulations
King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table
DOS1994 MVP Software
Last Action Hero
DOS1993 Psygnosis