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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).

Most popular top down games

Dune 2000
strategyWindows XP/98/95
Civilization 2
strategyWindows XP/98/95
Grand Theft Auto 2
action-adventureWindows XP/98/95

Top down games

  • clue-master-detective-03
    DOS19894.2/5 Dalali Software

    Clue Master Detective is an abandoned strategy game developed by Dalali Software and released by Leisure Genius in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Clue Master Detective is based on the well known board game Clue (also known as Cluedo). Clue can be played in single player, but the best gaming experience come from the multi-player mode.

  • steelpanthers-1
    DOS1995protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
  • northandsouth-2
    DOS19904.2/5 Infogrames
  • yoda-stories-03
    Windows XP/98/9519974.2/5 LucasArts
  • raiden-05
    DOS19944.2/5 Seibu Kaihatsu Inc.
  • atomic-bomberman-03
    Windows XP/98/9519974.2/5 Interplay Productions
  • ultima5-1
    DOS19884.2/5 Origin Systems
  • starflight-3
    DOS19864.2/5 Binary Systems
  • spacecrusade-1
    DOS19924.2/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
  • red-alert-6
    DOS1996freeware4.2/5 Westwood Studios

    Command and Conquer: Red Alert is a RTS developed by Westwood Studios, a sequel to Command & Conquer. Allies and the Soviet Union battle for control over Europe in an alternate history setting.

  • axis-and-allies-05
    Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 Wargaming West
  • warcraft-1
    DOS1994protected4.2/5 Blizzard Entertainment

    Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is the first real-time fantasy strategy game from Blizzard Entertainment. Two separate story lines (Orcs and Humans) evolve with 12 scenarios per side telling the tale of the battle for the Kingdom of Azeroth. Players must mine gold and chop wood in order to construct buildings and create units. Each side tries to destro...

  • ultima4-2
    DOS1985freeware4.2/5 Origin Systems

    Ultima IV is remembered as one of the best Ultima games ever released, designed as usual by Richard Garriott. Garriott took the Ultima series to a whole new level by introducing the eight virtues: honesty, compassion, valor, justice, sacrifice, honor, spirituality, humility. Ultima IV started the trilogy known as "Age of Enlightenment".

  • bad-blood-03
    DOS19904.2/5 Origin Systems
  • bycicle-bridge-03
    DOS19924.2/5
  • dragon-lord-01
    DOS19904.2/5 Spotlight Software
  • homm3-11
    Windows XP/98/951999protected4.2/5 New World Computing
  • infiltrator-1-05
    DOS19874.2/5 Chris Gray Enterprises
  • jackal-03
    DOS19894.2/5 Konami
  • ogre-03
    DOS19864.2/5 Origin Systems
  • reaping-the-dungeon-06
    DOS19934.2/5 Frontline Software
  • settlers-of-catan-02
    DOS19984.2/5
  • sword-of-aragon-05
    DOS1989protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
  • time-bandit-08
    DOS19894.2/5 MichTron
  • toobin-2
    DOS19894.2/5 Domark Software

    Toobin is an abandoned action game developed by Domark Software and released in 1989. Toobin runs on DOS but was also published for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Game Boy Color, MSX, NES, ZX Spectrum. It's a conversion from a popular arcade game (at the time).

  • zoom-02
    DOS19884.2/5
  • chessmaster-9000-01
    Windows XP/98/95Mac2002protected4.2/5 UBI Soft
  • archon-3
    DOS19844.2/5 Free Fall Associates

    Archon: The Light and the Dark is an abandoned DOS fantasy blend of strategy and action game, developed by Free Fall Associates and published for DOS by Electronic Arts in 1984. Archon and its sequels are a unique mix of chess-like turn-based strategy and arcade action games. Take chess and add the fact that every time two pieces land on the same s...

  • tower-assault-03
    DOS1994protected4.2/5 Team 17
  • masterofmagic-6
    DOSWindows XP/98/951994protected4.2/5 SimTex

    Master of Magic is a turn based 4x strategy game developed by SimTex and published by the well know Microprose, very similar to Civilization, with a fantasy twist. You play as a wizard and your objective is to evolve your race from a small settlement to a bursting empire. To do so, you can produce military units to fight other computer controlled p...