Abandonware DOS title

Top-down perspective sorted by title, from Z to A

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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Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness

DOS19874/5 Origin Systems
This is the first of the very popular RPG saga Ultima. The setting is the land of Sosaria, the enemy to defeat is Mondain. It's a classic cRPG. The wilderness and cities are represented from a top down perspective, while dungeons can be explored in a first person 3d view.
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Tyrian 2000

DOS1999freeware4.1/5 Eclipse Software
Tyrian 2000 is an old DOS science fiction classic shoot'em up, developed by Eclipse Software and designed by Alexander Brandon, Jason Emery, Daniel Cook. Tyrian 2000 is one of the most popular shoot'em ups ever published for DOS and it's still remembered by retro gaming fans to this day.
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TV Sports: Basketball

DOS1990freeware4.1/5 Cinemaware
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Turbo Gomoku

DOS19853/5
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Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan

DOS19904.1/5 New World Computing
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Tubular Worlds

DOS19943.5/5
trog-04

Trog

DOS19904.3/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
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Trivial Pursuit Deluxe

DOS19923.8/5 Oxford Digital Enterprises
trivial-pursuit-03

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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Tristan Pinball

DOS19914/5 Littlewing
trafficdepartment-4

Traffic department 2192

DOS1994freeware3.7/5 P Squared
traders-02

Traders

DOS19924/5 Linel
tracon1-02

Tracon: Air Traffic Control Simulator

DOS19893.8/5 Wesson International
tracon-for-win-01

Tracon for Windows

Windows 3.x19933.8/5 Wesson International
tracon2-02

Tracon 2

DOS19903.3/5 Wesson International
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Total Carnage

DOS19943.8/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
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Total Annihilation Kingdoms

Windows XP/98/951999protected4.1/5 Cavedog Entertainment
total-annihilation-03

Total Annihilation

Windows XP/98/951997protected4.2/5 Cavedog Entertainment
toobin-2

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).
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TomeNET

Windows XP/98/95Linux2003freeware4.3/5
titan-03

Titan

DOS19893.5/5 Titus Interactive
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Tiny Skweeks

DOS19923.5/5 Kalisto Entertainment
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Times of Lore

DOS19894.1/5 Origin Systems
Times of Lore is an abandoned action RPG designed by Chris Roberts, developed and released by Origin Systems in 1989 for DOS and many more 8 bit and 16 bit platforms. Compared to Ultima (the much more popular franchise also by Origin) Times of Lore is a washed down RPG, more similar to a NES game. In fact, Roberts was inspired by The Legend of Zelda.
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Time Bandit

DOS19894.3/5 MichTron
Time Bandit is a classic top-down arcade-style video game that was released in 1982 for various home computer systems, such as the Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, and others. It was developed by MichTron. In Time Bandit, players control a character who must navigate through a series of maze-like levels, battling various enemies and collecting treasure a...
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Thunderblade

DOS19893.4/5 Sega
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The Taking of Beverly Hills

DOS19914/5 Off The Wall Productions
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The Punisher

DOS19903/5 Paragon Software
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The Perfect General

DOS19914.2/5 White Wolf Productions
The Perfect General is a turn-based strategy military game developed by White Wolf Productions and released in 1991 by Quantun Quality Production. The Perfect General gameplay is quite simple compared to other wargames, but it's based on a solid set of rules and let the players progress at their own pace through missions and scenarios. The Perfect ...
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The Magic Candle 3

DOS19923.9/5 Mindcraft Software
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The Magic Candle 2: The Four and Forty

DOS19913.8/5 Mindcraft Software