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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Pack-Man

DOS1983remake3.4/5 Magicom Multimedia

Guerrilla War

DOS19873.4/5 SNK Corporation

Telengard

DOS1985freeware3.4/5 Avalon Hill

Skullduggery: Adventures in Horror

DOS19863.4/5

The Basket Manager

DOS19913.4/5 Simulmondo

Ajax

DOS19893.4/5 Konami

Scrabble

DOS19923.4/5 U.S. Gold

Vampyr: Talisman of Invocation

DOS19893.4/5

Battleship

DOS19833.3/5 Mirror Images Software

BitStorm

DOS19993.3/5

Bolo Ball

DOS19923.3/5 Soleau Software

Bridge 7.0

DOS19923.3/5 Artworx Software

House of Cards

DOS19893.3/5

If It Moves, Shoot It!

DOS19893.3/5 Emerald Software

King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table

DOS19943.3/5 MVP Software

Murder on the Zinderneuf

DOS19843.3/5 Free Fall Associates

PHM Pegasus

DOS19873.3/5 LucasArts

Sarge

DOS19893.3/5

Super Battleship

DOS19883.3/5

Tracon 2

DOS19903.3/5 Wesson International

Vlad Tepes Dracula

Windows XP/98/9519973.3/5 ComputerHouse

Cavequest

DOS19853.3/5

Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown

DOS19883.3/5 Mindscape

Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown is an abandoned simulation game with role-playing elements developed by Mindscape and released in 1988 exclusively for DOS. Visions of the Aftermath is one of the few early examples of games involving survival in a post-apocalyptic environment.