The most popular 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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Psion Chess

DOSMac OS19853.9/5 Psion Software

Murder on the Zinderneuf

DOS19843.3/5 Free Fall Associates

Legions

Windows 3.xMac OS19944/5 Mindscape

Autobots

DOS19893.2/5

Slash'Em

Windows XP/98/95Linux1997freeware4.1/5

Guerrilla War

DOS19873.5/5 SNK Corporation

Rotox

DOS19914.2/5 Creative Materials

Super Stardust

DOS19964.3/5 Housemarque

Super Pinball by Russco

DOS19874.5/5 Russco

Encyclopedia of War: Ancient Battles

DOS19882.8/5 Cases Computer Simulations

Feud

DOS19884/5 Binary Design

Royal Flush Pinball

DOS19943.5/5 Amtex

Temple of Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.8/5 Apogee Software

Global Conquest

DOS19924.3/5 Ozark Softscape

Dominium

DOS19924.2/5 Microids

Mission: Mainframe

DOS19873.9/5

Trivial Pursuit Deluxe

DOS19923.8/5 Oxford Digital Enterprises

Sword Quest 2: Tale of the Talisman

DOS19933.6/5

Silly Master Blaster

DOS19853.6/5

Othello

DOS19864.1/5

Meteors

DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software

Toobin

DOS19894.1/5 Domark Software

Toobin is an abandoned action game developed by Domark Software and released in 1989. Toobin runs on DOS but was also published for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Game Boy Color, MSX, NES, ZX Spectrum. It's a conversion from a popular arcade game (at the time).