Top-down view party-based RPGs

Party-based role-playing games played in a top down perspective were perhaps the first CRPGs to get some attention by fans of pen & paper RPGs. After all, a top down view is the ideal way to convey the feeling of looking at a map, and it's the perfect way to show every member of the party in a turn-based combat. The most fondly remembered top-down CRPGs of the golden age of gaming were perhaps the ones designed by the immortal Richard Garriott: the Ultima series. Let's not forget classics such as The Magic Candle, Dark Sun, Wasteland.

Most popular top-down party-based RPG games

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Amberstar

DOS19923.9/5 Thalion

Amberstar is a fantasy old school RPG very similar to Ultima 6 that uses a top-down view for interiors and small locations and a first person pseudo 3D view for everything else. Unfortunately, the sequel (called Ambermoon) was available for Amiga only and no version existed for DOS or Windows. Amberstar was developed and published by Thalion for DO...
Azalta: Cult of the Raven

DOS19964/5
Blades of Exile

Windows 3.xMacWindows XP/98/951997freeware3.9/5 Spiderweb Software
Bloodstone: an Epic Dwarven Tale

DOS19934/5 Mindcraft Software
Challenge of the Five Realms

DOS1992protected3.8/5 MicroProse Software
Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager

DOS1994protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands

DOS1993protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Demon's Winter

DOS1989protected3.7/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Disciples of Steel

DOS19943.9/5
Dragonflight

DOS19913.6/5 Thalion
Dungeons of Kairn

DOS19893.7/5
Exile II: Crystal Souls

Windows XP/98/95MacWindows 3.x1996freeware3.5/5 Spiderweb Software
Exile III: Ruined World

Windows XP/98/95MacWindows 3.x1997freeware3.8/5 Spiderweb Software
Exile: Escape from the Pit

Windows XP/98/95MacWindows 3.x1995freeware3.8/5 Spiderweb Software
Fountain of Dreams

DOS19904.3/5 Electronic Arts
Hard Nova

DOS19903.7/5 Malibu Interactive
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I

DOS19904/5 Interplay Productions

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I is an abandoned fantasy top-down DOS RPG game set in the The Lord of the Rings universe. The Lord of the Rings I was developed and released by Interplay Productions in 1990. The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I is based on the popular The Lord Of The Rings book by J.R.R. Tolkien and it's focused on the f...
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers

DOS19923.9/5 Interplay Productions

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers is an abandoned fantasy top-down DOS RPG game set in the The Lord of the Rings universe. The Lord of the Rings II was developed and released by Interplay Productions in 1992. The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers is based on the popular The Lord Of The Rings book by J.R.R. Tol...
Keys to Maramon

DOS19903.9/5 Mindcraft Software
Megatraveller 1: the Zhodani conspiracy

DOS19903.9/5 Paragon Software
Megatraveller 2: Quest for the ancients

DOS19913.7/5 Paragon Software
Phantasie 1

DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Phantasie 3: The Wrath of Nikademus

DOS19874.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Planet's Edge

DOS1991protected4/5 New World Computing
Scavengers of the Mutant World

DOS19883.9/5 Interstel Corporation
Space 1889

DOS19904/5 Paragon Software
The Aethra Chronicles

DOS19943.9/5

The Aethra Chronicles is not a well know fantasy RPG, but it deserves some praise. It was developed by only one person (Micheal Lawrence) and, as the title implies, was intended to be the first volume of a saga. Unfortunately, volume two and three were never made. For a shareware game, Aethra was pretty solid and is still loved by the ones who play...
The Dark Heart of Uukrul

DOS19894/5 Digital Studios Limited
The Magic Candle

DOS19894.1/5 Mindcraft Software

The Magic Candle: Volume 1 is the first chapter of a series of fantasy old school RPGs. The Magic Candle was developed and released by Mindcraft Software in 1989 for DOS but was also published for Apple II and Commodore 64. The whole Magic Candle series is very similar to some of the early Ultima games in every aspect: turn-based combat, top-down v...
The Magic Candle 2: The Four and Forty

DOS19913.8/5 Mindcraft Software