Top-down perspective
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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Command HQ
DOS1990 Ozark Softscape
Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars
DOS1990 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...
Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes
DOS1990protected id software
Commander Keen 3: Keen Must Die!
DOS1990protected id software
Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle
DOS1991protected id software
Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine
DOS1991protected id software
Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine is a science fiction action oriented platform game designed by Tom Hall, developed by id Software and released by Apogee Software in 1991 for DOS only. Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine is part of the Commander Keen game series, specifically it's the second episode of Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy.
Computer Diplomacy
DOS1984 Avalon Hill
Conan: the Cimmerian
DOS1991 Synergistic Software
Conflict
DOS1990 Mastertronic
Conflict in Vietnam
DOS1986 MicroProse Software
Conflict: Europe
DOS1989 Personal Software Services
Conflict Europe is an abandoned turn-based top-down strategy game set in Europe. The game was developed by Personal Software Services and released by Mirrorsoft in 1989 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.
Conflict: Korea
DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Conquest of Japan
DOS1992 Impressions Games
Cosmic Crusader
DOS1982 Funatics Software
Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow
DOS1992 Sierra On-Line
Crazy Nick's Software Picks: King Graham's Board Game Challenge
DOS1992 Sierra On-Line
Crossfire
DOS1982 Sierra On-Line
Crusade in Europe
DOS1985 MicroProse Software
Cyrus
DOS1985
D-Day: The Beginning of the End
DOS1994 Impressions Games
D-Zone
DOS1992
Daemonsgate
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1993protected Imagitec Design
Daffy Duck PI: The Case of the Missing Letters
DOS1991 Riedel Software Productions
Dark Legions
DOS1994protected Silicon Knights
Dark Reign 2
Windows XP/98/952000protected Pandemic Studios
Dark Reign: The Future of War
Windows XP/98/951997protected Auran Games
Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager
DOS1994protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
DOS1993protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Darklands
DOSLinuxWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1992protected MicroProse Software
Darklands was a unique historical isometric RPG that mixed real historical data from medieval Germany during the 15th century with a touch of folklore and fantasy. Unfortunately it was also the only Microprose RPG of that kind and beauty. The original game box contained a huge manual with info on european folklore (including the live...
DarkSpyre
DOS1990 Event Horizon