The Best Top-down Games

Update : Airships: Lost Flotilla added at rank #1.
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Airships: Lost Flotilla (2025)

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Airships: Lost Flotilla is a steampunk autoshooter where you fight your way through waves of enemies on your way to a safe harbour. Destroy your foes, harvest wreckage, and upgrade your ship.

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  • rogue-like
  • naval
  • attack
  • score
  • top-down
  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • steampunk
  • pve
  • hack-and-slash
  • arena
  • action
  • flight
  • historical
  • combat

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Border Town (2024)

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PC Windows

Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.

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  • building
  • farming
  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • open-world
  • action-adventure
  • shooter
  • survival
  • top-down
  • old-school
  • first-person
  • cartoony
  • simulation
  • adventure
  • magic

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NAIAD (2024)

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Immerse yourself in a relaxing, minimalist and colorful adventure. Flow with Naiad across a mysterious river and interact with its fauna and flora to discover little secrets. Enjoy a wholesome experience with an original and dreamy visual style.

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  • minimalist
  • nature
  • relaxing
  • top-down
  • puzzle-melody
  • exploration
  • cute
  • colourful
  • adventure
  • 2d
  • family-friendly
  • atmospheric
  • puzzle
  • fantasy
  • linear

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Bomball (2024)

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Bomball is a thrilling 2D top-down shooter PvP game where players juggle a bomb-ball to score against their opponent's car. Play locally with friends or practice solo against AI. With dynamic physics and chaotic gameplay modes, every match is a fast-paced battle for victory!

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  • top-down
  • boomer
  • shooter
  • cyberpunk
  • pvp
  • multiplayer
  • local
  • 2d
  • bullet-hell
  • action
  • pixel
  • dark
  • arcade

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Rum & Gun (2024)

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PC Windows

Rum & Gun combines fast-paced shooter action with ARPG loot and character building. Journey across the Indian Ocean, uncover the secrets of the Drunken God, and become a legendary pirate captain. You're not on the Caribbean anymore...

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  • naval
  • top-down
  • pirates
  • loot
  • hack-and-slash
  • shooter
  • editor
  • level
  • dungeon-crawler
  • rpg
  • action-adventure
  • action
  • historical
  • arpg
  • funny

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Intravenous 2 (2024)

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PC Windows

Intravenous 2 is the ultimate blend of tactical gameplay and immersive storytelling. Will you embrace the shadows or confront your foes head-on? The choice is yours. Experience a new era of tactical stealth action. Save lives. Uncover secrets. Take vengeance.


  • gun
  • stealth
  • tactical
  • top-down
  • shooter
  • violent
  • crime
  • customization
  • gore
  • immersive
  • realistic
  • simulation
  • action-adventure
  • story
  • pixel

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Black Hole Survivor (2024)

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PC Windows Android

A physics based twin-stick shooter about surviving as long as possible and getting a high score. Use your gravity beam or your gravity mine to destroy endless waves of enemies situated around a black hole.


  • twin-stick
  • top-down
  • shooter
  • 2.5d
  • space
  • pve
  • attack
  • score
  • physics
  • sci-fi
  • survival
  • arena
  • linear
  • arcade
  • controller-support

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Containment Breach (2024)

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Containment Breach is a wave-based zombie survival game where you can blow the limbs off of enemies. Earn points to unlock doors, buy and upgrade weapons, perks, and equipment. See how fast you can escape the facility or choose to stay and go for the highest round possible.


  • top-down
  • shoot-em-up
  • perma-death
  • pve
  • shooter
  • post-apocalyptic
  • zombies
  • horror
  • 2d
  • gore
  • stylized

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Retaliate (2024)

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You are valiant space hero who is not as fortunate as those in the golden age of scrolling shooters who had infinite ammo. Instead you must absorb your enemies' weapons and retaliate!

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  • top-down
  • shoot-em-up
  • shooter
  • space
  • retro
  • scroller
  • linear
  • scrolling
  • arcade
  • attack
  • score
  • 2d
  • vertical-scrolling

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Asteroids (2024)

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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

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