The Best Top-down Games - Page 5

Update : Shades of Rayna added at rank #1.
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Hell is Others (2022)

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PC Windows

Dive into the chilling world of 'Hell is Others', where you navigate the eerie Century City, fight off terrifying foes, and keep your blood-thirsty bonsai tree healthy. With the clock ticking, your choices decide your fate. Will you survive the spectral town and uncover its secrets?

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What we like:
  • Unique multiplayer experience
  • Adrenaline-pumping gameplay
  • Solid and polished design
  • Interesting customization options
  • Helpful game tips and strategies
What could be improved:
  • Limited exploration time
  • Small inventory size

  • top-down
  • gun
  • philosophical
  • perma-death
  • twin-stick
  • survival-horror
  • shooter
  • loot
  • shoot-em-up
  • pve
  • thriller
  • customization
  • dystopian
  • fast-paced
  • stealth

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Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince (2022)

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76
Review score
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Xbox Series X/s Xbox One PC Windows Linux Nintendo Switch

The Minotaur King has returned...and it's all your fault! Lily's back for a new "classic" action-adventure set hundreds of years after The Sleeping King!


  • top-down
  • dungeon
  • action-adventure
  • adventure
  • zelda
  • hack-and-slash
  • narrates
  • puzzle
  • exploration
  • instrument
  • pixel
  • remake
  • retro
  • colourful
  • pirates

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Blossom Tales 2: The Minotaur Prince (2022)

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77
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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Linux

Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince is an action-adventure game inspired by A Link to the Past, where you play as Lily, fighting your way through carnival games and battles to save your brother Chrys from the evil Minotaur King. Full of charming visuals, a captivating story and puzzles to solve, this game is a must-play for fans of adventure titles!

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What we like:
  • Unique story featuring a sibling relationship
  • Charming visuals reminiscent of SNES era
  • Enjoyable soundtrack
  • Helpful campfire recaps
  • Girl protagonist
What could be improved:
  • Not as innovative as first game in series
  • Mini-games can be repetitive

  • top-down
  • dungeon
  • zelda
  • action-adventure
  • adventure
  • cute
  • hack-and-slash
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • retro
  • instrument
  • puzzle
  • remake
  • colourful
  • narration

44

Endlanders: First Encounter (2022)

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PC Windows Linux

Build your deck, glitch through enemies, translate unknown languages and decipher the mysteries of this universe, in this grid-based real time combat indie game. This version features only one playable character and serves as the prologue for the game.

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  • rpg
  • logic
  • magic
  • dark
  • top-down
  • colourful
  • futuristic
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • card
  • space
  • fantasy
  • surreal

45

Pocky & Rocky Reshrined (2022)

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

The original cute and hardcore shrine maiden shooter is now available on Steam! Completely new game, a sequel to the home original "Pocky&Rocky" (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)! The adventures of Pocky&Rocky begin once again.

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  • shooter
  • top-down
  • classic
  • multi-directional
  • cooperative
  • pixel
  • run-and-gun
  • boss
  • retro
  • remake
  • local
  • multiplayer
  • high-paced
  • scrolling

46

Lumencraft (2022)

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78
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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Lumencraft is an addictive and action-packed game that combines mining, strategy, and tower defense elements. You play as a survivor in a post-apocalyptic world, where you need to mine resources, build structures, and defend against swarms of enemies to find the Lumen crystal, the last hope of mankind. With its destructible environments and multiple game modes, Lumencraft offers a unique and challenging gaming experience that will keep you coming back for more.


What we like:
  • Fun and engaging gameplay with a unique combination of genres
  • Destructible environments add a realistic and immersive touch to the game
  • Multiple game modes and custom maps add replayability
  • Good value for the price
  • Devs are responsive and supportive.
What could be improved:
  • Lack of online multiplayer co-op
  • Limited variety in enemy types and traps
  • Lack of guidance on achievable goals can be frustrating
  • Visuals could use more flair
  • Translation is not perfect.

  • top-down
  • tower-defense
  • shooter
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • thriller
  • wave
  • mining
  • rpg
  • twin-stick
  • rogue-like
  • survival
  • cooperative
  • horror
  • action

47

Mokoko X (2022)

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85
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Xbox One Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5

Nostalgic arcade gameplay remastered! Conquer the bigger portion of the screen and save the unlucky girls from the various absurd troublemakers.


  • top-down
  • dating-sim
  • arcade
  • bullet-hell
  • anime
  • shoot-em-up
  • boss
  • cute
  • funny
  • story
  • villain
  • 2d
  • mature
  • pirates

48

Karisvale (2022)

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PC Windows Mac OS

Your next job awaits in Karisvale, detective. Will you fulfill your duty? Or become lost in the mystery... Explore a retro top-down world, question its citizens, and collect hidden items to uncover Karisvale's dark secret.

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  • collectathon
  • soundtrack
  • conversation
  • text
  • top-down
  • short
  • dark
  • detective
  • psychological
  • mystery
  • multiple-endings
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • horror
  • atmospheric

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FixFox (2022)

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80
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PC Windows

Arriving on a curious planet, Vix and her toolbox Tin explore space, fixing machines with unconventional tools and eating cozy meals with kind robot locals. On an epic adventure, the duo repairs an interstellar beacon, constructs giant mechs, and unravels a cosmic mystery that transcends existence.


  • top-down
  • transhumanism
  • lore
  • puzzle
  • exploration
  • colourful
  • point-and-click
  • relaxing
  • space
  • sci-fi
  • crafting
  • cute
  • repair
  • story
  • atmospheric

50

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

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