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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Alex Higgins World Snooker

DOS19863.7/5 Lindensoft

Aleshar World of Ice

DOS19973.8/5

Albion

DOSWindows XP/98/9519954.2/5 Blue Byte Software

Albion is a science fiction role-playing game (RPG) developed and published by German studio Blue Byte Software. It was released in 1995 for MS-DOS and later for Amiga. Albion is notable for its blend of traditional RPG elements with a unique setting and storyline.The game takes place on the planet Albion, a world with a rich history and diver...

Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse

DOS1994protected3.8/5 Cyberlore studios

Akalabeth: World of Doom

DOS1981freeware3.6/5 California Pacific Computer

Akalabeth is a RPG game allegedly developed in just one summer by the Ultima franchise creator Richard Garriott. It's a dungeon crawler with wire-frame black and white graphics. Akalabeth is played in both first person 3d and top down view points.

Ajax

DOS19893.4/5 Konami

Airborne Ranger

DOS19884.2/5 MicroProse Software

Air Traffic Controller

DOS19854.2/5 Cascoly Software

Adventure Construction Set

DOS19873.9/5 Electronic Arts

Adventure Construction Set is an abandoned application developed by Stuart Smith and published for DOS, Amiga, Apple II and Commodore 64 by Electronic Arts in 1987. As the name suggests, ACS is a game-building system (we're talking about adventure RPGs) that lets you edit maps, items, creatures, etc. Included with ACS is a complete game called...

Advanced Civilization

DOS19954/5 Avalon Hill

Action Soccer

DOS19954.3/5 UBI Soft

Action in the North Atlantic

DOS19894/5 General Quarters Software

Action Fighter

DOS19893.9/5 Sega

Acquire

DOS19893.9/5 IBM

Accordion

DOS19903/5 Softdisk Publishing

A-Maze

DOS19894.2/5 New Era Software

A Nightmare on Elm street

DOS19893.9/5 Westwood Studios

A Line in the Sand

DOS1992protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

8088 Othello

DOS19853.5/5

7 colors

DOS19913.5/5 Gamos

5th Fleet

DOS19943.9/5

4Play

Windows 3.x1995NSFW3.9/5

4Play is a multi-player board-like strategy party-game for adults released for Windows 3.1 in 1995. 4Play is a board-game very similar to Monopoly in which players have to perform certain (adult) actions in response to events happening on the board.