Top-down perspective

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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Styx

DOS1984 Windmill Software

Subbuteo

DOS1990 Goliath Games

Subtrade: Return to Irata

DOS1993 Century Interactive

Subtrade: Return to Irata is an abandoned science fiction business simulation game developed by Century Interactive and published by Boeder Software in 1993 for Amiga and later ported to DOS. Subtrade is an updated multiplayer clo...

Super Battleship

DOS1988

Super Bomber Blast Beta

DOS1997remake

Super Pac-Man

DOS1982 Namco

Super Pinball by Russco

DOS1987 Russco

Super Speed

DOS1995

Super Speed: Christmas Edition

DOS1995

Super Stardust

DOS1996 Housemarque

Super ZZT

DOS1992 Epic MegaGames

Swap

DOS1992 Microids

Sword of Aragon

DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Sword of the Samurai

DOS1989protected MicroProse Software

Sword Quest 1: The Search

DOS1992

Sword Quest 2: Tale of the Talisman

DOS1993

Tangled Tales

DOS1989 Origin Systems

Dungeons & Dragons meets Disney on a sugar rush. Tangled Tales is a bright, humorous RPG that cheerfully pokes fun at fantasy clichés while still serving a solid adventure. You’ll meet talking animals, snarky wiza...

Telengard

DOS1985freeware Avalon Hill

Telengard is one of the earliest computer role-playing games, released in 1982 for various home computers like the Commodore 64, Apple II, and TRS-80 and later for PC. It was developed by Daniel Lawrence and was heavily inspired b...

Tempest 2000

DOS1996remake Atari

Tempest 2000 is a video game developed by Llamasoft and published by Atari Corporation. It was released in 1994 for DOS, Mac, the Atari Jaguar console, etc. Tempest 2000 is an enhanced remake of the original Tempest, which was rel...

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...

Temple of Kroz

DOS1990freeware Apogee Software

The Aethra Chronicles

DOS1994

The Aethra Chronicles is not a well know fantasy RPG, but it deserves some praise. It was developed by only one person (Micheal Lawrence) and, as the title implies, was intended to be the first volume of a saga. Unfortunately, vol...

The Ancient Art of War

DOS1984 Evryware

The Ancient Art of War is a classic video game that was released in the late 1980s. Developed by Evryware and published by Broderbund, it was available on various platforms, including Apple II, Atari ST, Amiga, and MS-DOS. The Anc...