Top-down
Description
These games use a top-down view, also called an overhead view or a helicopter view. A top-down view is strict and cannot have any angle at all.![]() |
PlayStation 2 (2003), Xbox (2003) and GameCube (2003) NHL Hitz Pro is Midway's 2003/2004 entry into the licensed hockey market. For the 2004 sports season, Midway introduced a... |
DOS (1993) After the highly popular first two games of the series (NHL Hockey and NHLPA Hockey '93), EA acquired both NHL... |
Amstrad CPC (1985) Nibbler is a variant of Rock-Ola's arcade game of the same name. A cruel witch has turned everyone around her,... |
Commodore 64 (1992) Nibbly '92 is a worm/nibble/snake game, where the player controls a growing snake while eating dots in an enclosed maze.... |
WonderSwan (1999) A simple golf game; Nice On brings the gray-gradient green into the hands itinerant gamers. The mechanism for golfing in... |
PlayStation 2 (2002) and GameCube (2002) It's summer time at Ocean Shores, but the sand at the beach has magically disappeared. Otto, Reggie, Twister and Sam... |
Commodore 64 (1985), ZX Spectrum (1985) and Amstrad CPC (1986) Nick Faldo Plays The Open is a golfing game for one player. The object is to complete a round of... |
Game Boy Color (2000) Nicktoons Racing for the Game Boy Color is conceptually similar to its console counterpart. It's a kart racing game but... |
DOS (1995) Obviously aiming for maximum offense, this game stars a racially-stereotyped caricature of a black man - whose apparent concern is... |
Amstrad CPC (1985) Night Boosters is a light cycle game for two players or one player against an AI opponent. The game works... |
Atari ST (1986) Night Crawlers is a game for one to four players who has to guide their worms so that they get... |
Amiga (1989), Atari ST (1989) and Commodore 64 (1989) In Nightdawn, the player takes the role of an engineer who has to prove that his remote-controlled tank is better... |
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Apple II (1982) Nightmare Gallery is a shoot 'em up similar to Centipede. The player is armed with a revolver and a supply... |
VIC-20 (1982) and Commodore PET/CBM (1980) In Nachtmerrie Park (Nightmare Park) the player must try to escape the park. There are several paths for the player... |
ZX Spectrum (1982) and ZX81 (1981) Your aim is to cross Nightmare Park from S to F without dying by completing various tasks that you come... |
Commodore 64 (1984) Nightmare Park is a top down single screen game where you have to enter a park from the top of... |
DOS (1994) Night Maze is a single player, shareware, maze game that is keyboard controlled.The player starts the game somewhere in a... |
PlayStation (2002) and Arcade (2001) In the year 3309, humanity has been taken over by computers. The planet was mechanized by the main computer Batinbo... |
PC-98 (1993) Once upon a time, there was a young boy who loved motorcycles. Riding through the night on his bike was... |
Windows (2010), PC Booter (1983), Atari 2600 (1982), Intellivision (1982), Apple II (1983), Xbox 360 (2010) and Mattel Aquarius (1983) Robots, bats, and spiders chase you around a maze in Night Stalker, which boasts similar gameplay, if some what slower,... |
ZX Spectrum (1984) Night Stalker is clone of Centipede. Rules are identical - the player controls small cannon (bottom part of screen) and... |
ZX Spectrum (1987) Nihilist is 2D top-down shooter. Action takes place in seven-level complex patrolled by droids of eight different ranks: Alpha, Beta,... |
NES (1991) The game is set in the Middle Ages, all around the famous Silk Road, which connected China and the Middle... |
Nintendo 3DS (2011) 'Nikoli's Pencil Puzzle' is a collection of 600 puzzles including Sudoku, Bridges, Boxes and Museum types.Players mainly use the stylus... |
Critic Score
Top games by as rated by the press:
- 96 Chrono Trigger
- 95 Radiant Silvergun
- 94 Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon
- 94 Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX
- 94 Ms. Pac-Man
- 94 Metal Gear Solid
- 94 Metal Gear Solid
- 94 Chrono Trigger
- 93 Tecmo Super Bowl
- 93 Shadowfire
Games must have at least a Critic Score of 80 to be considered.
MobyScore
Top games as rated by our users:
- 4.78 Napalm: The Crimson Crisis (1998)
- 4.69 Summer Carnival '92: Recca (1992)
- 4.61 Aleste 2 (1989)
- 4.60 Ultima: The Second Trilogy (1992)
- 4.55 Digidrive (2006)
- 4.51 Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (2008)
- 4.49 Xak: The Art of Visual Stage (1989)
- 4.47 Romance of the Three Kingdoms VI: Awakening of the Dragon (1998)
- 4.46 Smart Games Puzzle Challenge 2 (1997)
- 4.45 SD Snatcher (1990)
Games must have at least 5 votes and a User Score of 4.0 to be considered.
Perspective
Top-down is part of Perspective. This group of genres contain: