Top-down view
One of the types of camera in video games is top-down view. It is very similar to isometric view but differs slightly. In top-down view, developers do not strive to make the world three-dimensional and deep. Everything is depicted either in two-dimensional space or they create a pseudo "volume" from several rows of two-dimensional spaces. For example, a character can go behind a "flat" house. Sometimes the camera is completely vertical, and the player looks at the flat world from above, as in the first game of the GTA series. Scaling in such games is used very rarely. This method can be used in quests, role-playing games, hack and slash, beat 'em up, strategy games, and many others.
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Best Games in the Top-down view genre of 2012
Simulation, Action, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Strategy, Space
September 14, 2012
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
86/100
FTL: Faster Than Light is a unique management simulator with role-playing elements in a sci-fi setting. The cruiser Kestrel was lucky to find out secret information...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
April 27, 1990
Players:
8/10
Steam:
93/100
Final Fantasy III is a fantasy anime-style role-playing game with a third-person perspective. The four main characters were completely redesigned and new scenarios...
Role-playing game, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Exploration
July 12, 1990
Players:
9.5/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
71/100
Final Fantasy is a Japanese-style top-down fantasy RPG with turn-based combat. The game's story focuses on four heroes whose parents were killed during the invasion...
Role-playing game, In real time, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics, Strategy, Japanese role-playing game
July 19, 1991
Players:
7.1/10
Steam:
93/100
Metacritic:
85/100
Final Fantasy IV is a tactical turn-based strategy role-playing game with anime and fantasy RPG elements. Expect fully voiced dramatic cutscenes, deep, emotionally...
Arcade, Action, Shooter, Racing, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Sports game
December 4, 2009
Players:
6.7/10
Steam:
84/100
Metacritic:
64/100
Zombie Driver is a whirlwind racing action game with a top-down view in the dangerous world of the zombie apocalypse. You have to travel around a city inhabited by...
Role-playing game, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
December 17, 1988
Players:
8/10
Metacritic:
68/100
A turn-based role-playing game set in a fantasy world where an emperor summons monsters from a demonic realm to seize control. After the attacks leave them...
Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Space, Indie
June 19, 2011
Players:
7.9/10
Steam:
91/100
Metacritic:
74/100
This space action game with strategy and role-playing elements follows a pirate assembling a fleet and travelling towards the galactic core in search of treasure or...
Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based
April 10, 2009
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
91/100
Metacritic:
82/100
King's Bounty: Armored Princess is a continuation of a role-playing adventure with turn-based strategy elements in a fantasy world. The game will tell the story of...
Action, Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Top-down view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Cooperative (co-op)
April 15, 2011
Players:
7.8/10
Steam:
90/100
Metacritic:
70/100
Sanctum is a top-down tactical shooter with strategy elements in the tower defense genre in a sci-fi setting. As one of the first tower defense shooters in history...
Role-playing game, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
December 18, 1997
Players:
9.1/10
Metacritic:
89/100
Grandia is a Japanese role-playing game about Justin, a young boy who dreams of becoming a great adventurer and sets out to uncover the mystery of a long-lost...