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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Legends of Murder: Volume 1 - Stonedale Castle

DOS1989protected3.5/5 Softdisk Publishing

Moraff's World

DOS19913.5/5 Moraffware

Mystical

DOS1990protected3.5/5 Infogrames

Postman Pat 3: To the Rescue

DOS19923.5/5 Alternative Software

Super Pac-Man

DOS19823.5/5 Namco

Swap

DOS19923.5/5 Microids

Tangled Tales

DOS19893.5/5 Origin Systems

The Civil War

DOS19953.5/5 Dagger Interactive Technologies

Tiny Skweeks

DOS19923.5/5 Kalisto Entertainment

Titan

DOS19893.5/5 Titus Interactive

Tubular Worlds

DOS19943.5/5

Blitzkrieg: Battle at the Ardennes

DOS19903.5/5 Command Simulations

7 colors

DOS19913.5/5 Gamos

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...