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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Bubble Trouble

Windows XP/98/951998

Capture the Flag

DOS1993

Cloud Kingdoms

DOS1990 Logotron

Doom: The Roguelike

DOS2005freeware

House of Cards

DOS1989

If It Moves, Shoot It!

DOS1989 Emerald Software

Kampfgruppe

DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Moonbase

DOS1990 Wesson International

Murder on the Zinderneuf

DOS1984 Free Fall Associates

Sarge

DOS1989

Super Battleship

DOS1988

Cavequest

DOS1985

Heavy Barrel

DOS1989 Data East

Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown

DOS1988 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.

Oubliette

DOS1983

Death by Backgammon

DOS1990

Lost Adventures of Kroz

DOS1990freeware Apogee Software

Xenopods

DOS1991 Softdisk Publishing

Rescue at Rigel

DOS1983 Epyx

Flying Tigers 2

DOS1994

The Civil War

DOS1987 Avalon Hill

Liverpool: the Computer Game

DOS1992 Arc Developments

Redhook's Revenge

DOS1993 ImagiSoft

Tracon 2