The Best Top-down Games - Page 4

Update : Asteroids added at rank #36.
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Heat Signature (2017)

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PC Windows

Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.


  • pause
  • stealth
  • rogue-like
  • top-down
  • space
  • corridor
  • sci-fi
  • procedural
  • action
  • inventory
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • hyper-fast
  • heist
  • stealth-em-up

32

Endoparasitic (2022)

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Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must save your research. Drag yourself through the corridors of a secret research lab on a remote asteroid, fight off horribly mutated monsters, inject countless syringes of vaccines, and survive at all costs.


  • survival-horror
  • top-down
  • lovecraftian
  • minimalist
  • zombies
  • stylized
  • space
  • horror
  • dark
  • action-adventure
  • noir
  • 2d
  • stealth
  • abstract
  • exploration

33

Hotline Miami (2012)

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Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.


  • top-down
  • violent
  • surreal
  • shooter
  • stealth
  • gore
  • narrative
  • 1980s
  • action
  • super-violent
  • baseball
  • reflexes
  • retro
  • murder

34

Sophstar (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5

A vertical arcade shoot'em up with an inventive teleport system, lots of fast-blazing action and explosions, tons of boss fights, a risk/reward based score sytem and a proper challenge for both veteran and new players of the genre.

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  • vertical
  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • top-down
  • arcade
  • collectathon
  • retro
  • boss
  • vertical-scrolling
  • multiple-endings
  • attack
  • score
  • aliens
  • space

35

Destropolis (2020)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Big, hexagonal bosses wreak havoc with their massive machine guns.• 15 different guns at your disposal. Shotguns, assault rifles and machine guns shoot bullets that shred your enemies to pieces. Lasers and gauss guns cut through the enemies like knives through butter.• 12 power-ups and 40 skills that enhance your abilities.


  • twin-stick
  • top-down
  • rogue-like
  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • bullet
  • cyberpunk
  • shoot-em-up
  • time
  • cube
  • procedural
  • cooperative
  • split-screen
  • arcade
  • survival

36

Asteroids (2024)

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Android Linux PC Windows IOS iPhone

Asteroids ++ is the best Asteroids game you will ever play in your life. Customize your spaceship with your weapon loadout, save your solar system, and destroy those damn Asteroids! And remember, you can never end Asteroid genocide!


  • space
  • multidirectional
  • rogue-like
  • top-down
  • arcade
  • editor
  • 2.5d
  • level
  • gun
  • customization
  • shooter
  • shoot-em-up
  • old-school
  • replay-value
  • linear

37

Thunderflash (2020)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Nintendo 3DS

Inspired by nostalgic retro games you know and love, Thunderflash will drop you into the combat zone top-down, and the intensity will never let up. Play a solo mission or with a partner, and choose from bad boy commandos Rock or Stan, and go up against an army of mercenaries, military weapons and more!The Kashmir is being occupied by a criminal organization known as Bloody Wolf, and your job is to make your country proud by taking them all down. Fight your way through waves of soldiers, explosives, vehicles and drones, and bosses, and collect more powerful weapons.Show that you have what it takes to be a hardcore warrior!Features* Intense top-down war zone action* Collect powerful weapons* Single player and two player mode* Boss rush mode


  • top-down
  • football
  • shooter
  • arcade
  • rpg
  • retro
  • sport
  • 80s
  • war
  • military
  • assassin
  • maker
  • hardcore
  • team
  • action

38

Twelve Minutes (2021)

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Twelve Minutes is a highly-anticipated, unique narrative adventure game. You play as the male protagonist who lives with his wife and control the cursor with the analogue stick to interact with the environment or other characters. Every bit of dialogue is voiced by stars like Daisy Ridley, James McAvoy and Willem Dafoe and you have a limited window of time to figure out how to get out of the time loop.


What we like:
  • Unique narrative adventure game
  • Fantastic voice acting
  • Graphically beautiful
  • Enjoyable point-and-click gameplay
  • Opportunity to complete multiple play-throughs for achievements
What could be improved:
  • Some graphical fuzziness when zooming in on objects
  • Tough final act that may leave players feeling angry

  • point-and-click
  • top-down
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • narrative
  • puzzle
  • romantic
  • inventory
  • time
  • interactive
  • drama

39

Blaster Master Zero (2017)

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Xbox One PC Windows

Mutant scum never learn! Blaster Master Zero makes its Steam debut! Blaster Master Zero is a 8-bit style top-down & sideview 2D action-adventure game that hearkens back to the golden age of the NES. The game features new gameplay elements such as improved gameplay, and a more robust scenario.


  • top-down
  • platform
  • run
  • remake
  • metroidvania
  • dungeon
  • boss
  • gun
  • retro
  • vehicle
  • classic
  • two-player
  • pixel
  • frog
  • driving

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The Hong Kong Massacre (2019)

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Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.


  • top-down
  • shooter
  • crime-riddled
  • twin-stick
  • violent
  • bullet
  • gore
  • time
  • detective
  • blood
  • action
  • trading

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