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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Legacy of the Ancients

DOS1989 Quest Software

Legend of the Silver Talisman

DOS1996freeware Inter-Active Arts

Legend of the Sword

DOS1988 Silicon Software

Legends of Murder: Volume 1 - Stonedale Castle

DOS1989protected Softdisk Publishing

Legions

Windows 3.xMac OS1994 Mindscape

Lego Loco

Windows XP/98/951998 Intelligent Games

Liverpool: the Computer Game

DOS1992 Arc Developments

Llamatron 2112

DOS1992 Llamasoft

Locomotion

DOS1992 Prestige Softwareentwicklung

Logo

DOS1990NSFW Starbyte Software

Loopz

DOS1990 Audiogenic

Lord of Destruction

DOS1994 Rebelsoft

Lords of Conquest

DOS1987 Eon Software

Lords of Midnight: The Citadel

DOS1995 Maelstrom Games

Lords of the Realm

DOSWindows XP/98/951994protected Impressions Games

Lords of the Realm is top-down kingdom simulation game set in medieval Europe (England and Germany), designed by Christopher J. Foster and David Lester, developed by Impressions Games and released 1994 for DOS, Windows and Amiga.

Lords of the Realm 2

DOSWindows XP/98/95Windows 10/11Mac OS1996protected Impressions Games

Lords of the Realm II is a medieval-themed real-time strategy (RTS) and turn-based strategy game developed by Impressions Games and published by Sierra On-Line. Released in 1996, it is the second game in the "Lords of the Realm" series. Players manage their kingdom by balancing resources such as food, weapons, and gold, engaging in diplomacy w...

Lost Adventures of Kroz

DOS1990freeware Apogee Software

M.U.D.S. - Mean Ugly Dirty Sport

DOS1990 Golden Goblins

MacArthur's War

DOS1990 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Machiavelli the Prince

DOS1995protected Holistic Design

Mad Mix

DOS1988 Topo Soft

Mad Paradox

DOS1994NSFW Queen Soft

Mageslayer

Windows XP/98/951997 Raven Software

Mageslayer is an action game developed by Raven Software and published by GT Interactive in 1997 for MS-DOS. It stands out as a top-down, hack-and-slash dungeon crawler inspired by games like Gauntlet, but with an original fantasy setting and a darker, more intense tone. The game uses the same engine as Take No Prisoners, another Raven Software tit...

Mah Jongg Solitaire

DOS1987 Arcanum Computing

Major Stryker

DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware Apogee Software

Marble Cooking

DOS1994NSFW Negative

Master of Magic

DOSWindows XP/98/951994protected 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...