The most popular 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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Fantasy Empires

DOS1993protected Silicon Knights

Yacht Racing Simulator

DOS1986

Slicks 'n' Slide

DOS1993

Flightmare

DOS1984freeware

Siege

DOS1992 Mindcraft Software

House of Cards

DOS1989

NFL Football

DOS1992 Distinctive Software

NFL Pro League Football

DOS1989 Micro Sports

Lords of Midnight: The Citadel

DOS1995 Maelstrom Games

Kampfgruppe

DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Gulf Strike

DOS1986 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Exile: Escape from the Pit

Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995freeware Spiderweb Software

Exile: Escape from the Pit is a turn-based role-playing game (RPG) developed by Spiderweb Software. It is part of the Exile series, originally released in the mid-1990s. This game was later remade and re-released as Avernum: Escap...

Final Frontier

DOS1989 Bubble Bus Software

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

DOS1989 Tynesoft Computer Software

Saddle up for an awkward mix of minigames that vaguely resemble rodeo events. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show tries to recreate the excitement of a 19th-century traveling circus but ends up feeling more like a 1980s office party whe...

Frontline

DOS1990 Cases Computer Simulations

Fisher-Price Firehouse Rescue

DOS1988 GameTek

La Colmena

DOS1992NSFW Opera Soft

Felony!

DOS1984 BrainBank

Great Napoleonic Battles

DOS1991 Impressions Games

Moraff's Morejongg

Windows XP/98/951992 Moraffware

Subbuteo

DOS1990 Goliath Games

Air Force Commander

DOS1992 Impressions Games

In Air Force Commander (1992), you don’t just fly planes - you run the whole air force. Think of it as being a general with a spreadsheet addiction. Assign squadrons, manage budgets, and try not to start World War III. It's ...

Search and Destroy

DOS1988 Broderbund

The computer edition of Scrabble

DOS1989 Leisure Genius

EGA-Roids

DOS1986freewareremake Designer Software

Blitz Draughts

DOS1992 PC Solutions

Don’t let the title fool you — Blitz Draughts isn’t a military simulation but rather a gloriously intense checkers game from 1992. This DOS brain-bender turns the classic board game into a high-speed duel of wits...