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).
Sort by:
Grand Slam Bridge
DOS1986 Cybron corporation
Yacht Racing Simulator
DOS1986
Panzer Battles
DOS1990 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Prophecy: the Fall of Trinadon
DOS1989 Activision
Return to Kroz
DOS1990freeware Apogee Software
The Basket Manager
DOS1991 Simulmondo
Ajax
DOS1989 Konami
Ajax (1989) is like an arcade fever dream: vertical shooter, transforming vehicles, lasers everywhere, and a soundtrack that yells “blast stuff!” every few seconds. One minute you’re flying a helicopter, the next you’re a tank on a hoverboard - don’t ask how, just shoot. It’s pure ’80s adrenaline: fast, lou...
Heavy Barrel
DOS1989 Data East
Scrabble
DOS1992 U.S. Gold
Oubliette
DOS1983
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 by DND, a 1970s mainframe game that itself took influence from Dungeons & Dragons. Telengard is a dungeon crawle...
Black Hole
DOS1993
Bridge 7.0
DOS1992 Artworx Software
Cloud Kingdoms
DOS1990 Logotron
Doom: The Roguelike
DOS2005freeware
House of Cards
DOS1989
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
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.
Death by Backgammon
DOS1990
Lost Adventures of Kroz
DOS1990freeware Apogee Software
Xenopods
DOS1991 Softdisk Publishing
Rescue at Rigel
DOS1983 Epyx
The Civil War
DOS1987 Avalon Hill
Beverly Hills Cop
DOS1990 Tynesoft Computer Software
The Beverly Hills Cop video game by Tynesoft is an action-adventure game based on the popular film franchise starring Eddie Murphy. It was released in 1990 for various home computer platforms, including the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC.In the game, players take on the role of Axel Foley, the wise-cracking detective played by Murphy in...