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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Soviet

DOS19904.1/5 Opera Soft

Kingdom of Kroz 2

DOS19903.2/5 Apogee Software

Subtrade: Return to Irata

DOS19933.9/5 Century Interactive

Subtrade: Return to Irata is an abandoned science fiction business simulation game developed by Century Interactive and published by Boeder Software in 1993 for Amiga and later ported to DOS. Subtrade is an updated multiplayer clone of the classic M.U.L.E., set underwater on an oceanic world.

Settlers of Catan

DOS19984.1/5

Scrabble

DOS19893.6/5

Tubular Worlds

DOS19943.5/5

Global Effect

DOS19924.1/5 Millennium Interactive

Space 1889

DOS19903.9/5 Paragon Software

Space 1889 is an abandoned top down RPG developed by Paragon Software and released in 1990 for DOS, Atari ST and Amiga. Space 1889 setting is classic science fiction, but is set in the Victorian. It's worth noting that Space 1889 is loosely based on the tabletop game of the same name.

Cosmic Crusader

DOS19823.7/5 Funatics Software

Questron 2

DOS1988protected3.8/5 Westwood Studios

Battleship

DOS19833.3/5 Mirror Images Software

Bobby Fisher teaches chess

DOS19944/5 Mission Studios

Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign

DOS19883.8/5 Cases Computer Simulations

Stone Age

DOS19924.1/5

Redhook's Revenge

DOS19933.3/5 ImagiSoft

Ante-Up at The Friday Night Poker Club

DOS19903.9/5

The Ancient Art of War in the Skies

DOS19923.7/5 Evryware

Backgammon

DOS19862.7/5

Styx

DOS19843.9/5 Windmill Software

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.