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).
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Master of Orion 3
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003protected4.2/5 Quicksilver Software
Bad Blood
DOS19904.2/5 Origin Systems
Heroes of Might and Magic
DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected4.2/5 New World Computing
Cannon Fodder
DOS1994protected4.2/5 Sensible Software
Conflict in Vietnam
DOS19864.2/5 MicroProse Software
Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday
DOS1990protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Bicycle Bridge
DOS19924.2/5
Chessmaster 9000
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS20024.2/5 UBI Soft
Chessmaster 9000 is a chess game developed by Ubisoft and released in 2002. It's part of the Chessmaster series, which has been around since the 1980s. Chessmaster 9000 was known for its strong chess engine and comprehensive tutorial features, making it popular among both beginners and advanced players. The software also included annotated gam...
Dragon Lord
DOS19904.2/5 Spotlight Software
Tempest 2000
DOS1996remake4.2/5 Atari
Tempest 2000 is a video game developed by Llamasoft and published by Atari Corporation. It was released in 1994 for DOS, Mac, the Atari Jaguar console, etc. Tempest 2000 is an enhanced remake of the original Tempest, which was released in arcades in 1981.In Tempest 2000, players control a claw-shaped ship that moves around the edges of geometric sh...
V for victory: Market-Garden
DOS1993protected4.2/5 Atomic Games
Zoom!
DOS19884.2/5
Axis and Allies
Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 Wargaming West
Rogue
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS19844.2/5 Artificial Intelligence Design
Rogue is one of the first RPGs in the history of video gaming. It's a text-based dungeon crawler in which you have to fight your way in the dungeon to recover the Amulet of Yendor. Rogue became popular around 1980 on mainframes and later ported to various platforms, including DOS in 1984. Rogue is simply the father of all the roguelike games that c...
Army Men
Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 The 3DO Company
Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars
DOS19904.2/5 id software
Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars is a platform video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1990 as shareware for MS-DOS. The game follows the adventures of an eight-year-old genius named Billy Blaze, who uses his homemade spaceship to travel to various alien planets to save the Earth from alien invaders known as V...
Centurion: Defender of Rome
DOS19904.2/5 Bits of magic
Centurion: Defender of Rome is a turn-based strategy game set in ancient Rome times. As a centurion of the Roman Empire, you will fight against the enemies of Rome in real time battles in every corner of Italy and Europe, you'll be a gladiator, race chariots, fight naval battles and more.
Commander Keen 3: Keen Must Die!
DOS1990protected4.2/5 id software
Phantasie 3: The Wrath of Nikademus
DOS19874.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Renegade Legion Interceptor
DOS1990protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Slicks 'n' Slide
DOS19934.2/5
Space Crusade
DOS19924.2/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
Heroes of Might and Magic II
DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected4.2/5 New World Computing
Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness
DOS1995protected4.2/5 Blizzard Entertainment
Star Wars: Yoda Stories
Windows XP/98/9519974.2/5 LucasArts
A-Maze
DOS19894.2/5 New Era Software
Black Moon Chronicles
DOS1999protected4.1/5 Cryo Interactive Entertainment
Sensible Soccer
DOS19924.1/5 Sensible Software
SimCity
DOSWindows 3.xWindows XP/98/951989protected4.1/5 Maxis
SimCity (or SimCity Classic) is a popular city building simulation in which you, the mayor of a city, have to build a metropolis from the ground up. You can build police and fire departments, assign industrial, residential or commercial areas, manage power distribution, build ports and airports. Grow your city from village to metropolis and try to ...
Warlords
DOS19904.1/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group