15 Best Top Down View Games on Steam

Hearts of Iron IV is an Action, Strategy, War, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Paradox Development Studio. The game is centered on WWII, and features various nations and lets the player choose one of them in 1936 or 1939 and leads his army to win. There are three major powers such as the Axis, the Comintern, and the Allice. Lead your nation, make strategies, and fight against other nations using weapons and win the battle.

The game rewards the player with experience points that can unlock further content. Protect your units on land, sea, and air and take down enemies. Hearts of Iron IV offers core features such as Total Strategic War, Control any Nation, Online Combat, Control Planes, Tanks, etc. With a detailed environment, impressive gameplay, and brilliant mechanics, Hearts of Iron IV is a superb game to play.

XCOM is a Series Multi-genre video games and offers a versatility throughout the series. Strategy, RTS, turn-based tactics, Real-time Tactics, Simulations, Construction and Management, Military and War gaming, Space Flight, FPS, Third-person Shooting, Action, RPG, etc. are all the genres in which XCom offers games. XCom series was originally started back in 1994 by a company known as MicroProse. MicroProse published in total six games with two of them cancelled. The series rocked the markets but soon it lost the business until the series was rebooted in 2005 by 2K Games. The Series once again started with a mega hit XCOM: Enemy Unknown and broke all the previous records. With critically acclaim and commercial success, the company launched an Expansion pack named as XCOM: Enemy Within, back in 2013 and another title XCOM 2 in 2016. From the very beginning to the latest release of the series, XCOM has maintained the standard and the quality of content and is one of the most favorite series of games throughout the world. Players who typically love playing games with Sci-Fi and Action elements, can play the games in the series and enjoy.

Factorio mixes the elements of Action, Real-time Strategy, and Survival developed and published by Wube Software. The game supports both Single and Multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story revolves around a spaceman who landed on an alien planet due to crash. As the survival, your primary objective is to harvest resources by hand to build up different structures, and a rocket to escape back to home. The inhabitants of the planet are trying to defend their environment from the destruction and pollution by you. The game is about creating a colony, searching resources, and surviving as long as possible to progress in the match. In the beginning, you starts off from an empty land, and your initial task is to build a colony by collecting resources and expand it further and further to progress through the game. There are three vehicles available that you can use during gameplay such as train, car, and tank. Three types of enemies present to take you a tough time while you are completing your objectives such as splitters, worms, and bitters. Explore the world from a top-down perspective, accomplish randomly generated levels and build your spaceship to escape to home. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Do you want to forget your past? Or do you want to kill it? Well, this fantastic Roguelike Bullet Hell and Top-down Shooter is all about forgetting the past. Developed by Dodge Roll, Enter the Gungeon lets the players take on a journey filled with Hardcore Action and Thrill. The game offers a truly remarkable and an extremely fast-paced gameplay in which it Tasks the players to go head to head with deadly Robots, shoot them down with fire blazing guns and finally reach down to the treasure of Legendary Gungeon, a special Gun that can kill the Past. With amazing Dungeon Crawling elements, Enter the Gungeon lets the players select any character from the provided characters of Misfits, shoot down your way through the dungeons, collect epic loots and complete the game objectives while enjoying the most amazing gameplay ever. Enter the Gungeon offers all the amazing Perks and upgrades that the players can use and enhance their firepower along with fantastic skills, use them against the enemies and enjoy the game. With a brilliant game setting, impressive 2D visuals, and great mechanics, Enter the Gungeon is one of the best Dungeon Crawling, Action, Shooter and Roguelike video game to play and enjoy. Do give it a try.

Prison Architect combines the elements of Construction and Management Simulation created and published by Introversion Software. The game offers top-down gameplay and deals with city-building genre. The main objective of the player is to build and run a prison to earn money and experience points. It offers the similar gameplay like Theme Hospital, and the player has to build different units, rooms, cages, and office. Hire staff such as a warden, workers, and guards and train them. There are two types of roles that the player can assume such as Governor and Architect. It has a set of levels, and the player will rank up as he completes the objectives. The player can enjoy two different types of modes offering different challenges, story and gameplay such as Escape mode and Story mode. Navigate the world, complete tasks and expand the prison further and further to earn lots of money and points and compete against rival NPCs. With superb gameplay, addictive soundtracks, and brilliant visuals, Prison Architect is the best game as compared to other Business Simulations.

Crusader Kings II: Conclave is an Expansion Pack for Crusader King II and revolves around Action Role-playing and Strategy Simulation elements developed by Paradox Development Studio. The DLC pack focuses on grand strategy element and takes place in the middle age from 1066 to 1453. It consists of several historical figures such as Charlemagne, Robert Guiscard, El Cid, and more. Your ultimate task is to select your territory and dive into the game where you have to make your strategy to fight against other using your political, military and economic power. Earn experience points by defeating other figures, and conquer the world to become the master. Keep your people happy, and gather resources to survive longer. Councils, Diplomatic System, Marital Alliances, Military Combat, etc. are prominent features in the game. With enhanced visuals, addictive mechanics, and wonderful sounds, Crusader Kings II: Conclave is the best expansion pack in the series of Crusader Kings II.

Hero Siege is another wonderful Fantasy-based Action-Adventure video game that offers Fast-paced, Top-Down Hack and Slash, Rogue-like and RPG elements and allows you to go full scale against the enemies, Kill them all by your super cool sword wielding and gun slinging skills, improve your offensive and defensive skills and abilities by fighting selflessly, loot all the things you can and explore a massive game-world. With super cool visuals, an addictive game-play and countless hours of plain entertainment, Hero Siege features Online Multiplayer Support, Randomly generated game world, levels, collectibles, dungeons, enemies, bosses, 170 above unique characters, a lot of achievements to unlock, 4 difficulty levels, beautiful Rogue-like visuals and an immersive game-play for you to play and enjoy this cool game.

Undertale is a Single-player Role Playing and Puzzle sgame by Toby Fox. The game offers a Top Down perspective and allows the players to control a Child’s character who falls in the underworld. This large secluded region under the Earth’s surface is separated by a very thin Magic Barrier. After falling to the Underworld, the game tasks the player to explore the world, meet monsters on your way up the surface, engage into epic combats with the monsters and keep on going up while reigning a Bullet hell over the enemies. Undertale offers a choice-based gameplay and allows the players to either kill the monsters or spare them and the decisions that the players makes, directly affect the ending of the game. There is also brief Dialog included in the game, and that feature allows the player to interact with various characters in the game, know the directions and get info about safe passageways, etc. Undertale offers Puzzle elements as well in the game and allows the players to solve some of the most complex puzzles while exploring the world and finding the way up. With the Scripted events, Bullet hell combats, loads of obstacles, Boss fights, an epic journey to complete, and Challenging puzzles, Undertale offers quite a unique experience of Action, RPG and Puzzle gaming elements to enjoy.

RimWorld is a 2013’s top trending Construction and Management Simulation by Ludeon Studios. The game focuses on the objectives of the game to Explore and Expand a newly built colony of Survivors of a deadly Spaceship Crash. The primary tasks are to explore, collect resources and repairing the ship so the survivors can escape the planet. With a remarkable Top-down 2D view, RimWorld offers a randomly generated storyline and an open world to explore. RimWorld offers three AI (Artificial Intelligence) Storytellers in the game named as Cassandra, Phoebe, and Randy. The story of RimWorld revolves around several characters, and it allows the players to control three characters initially at the early stages of the game. One fantastic feature of the game is that it allows the players to keep on generating the characters until they are satisfied with their particular attributes. As the time passes, more and more colonists join the game and in particular the Colony. The new colonists can act upon their will individually, or they can be taken as prisoners and forced to join the Colony. During the gameplay, the Storytellers keep on throwing random events at the players and the players gets to select between accepting the event or they can reject them. Accepting the events as quests can be good for the players as they offer tons of rewards. The characters in the game can keep on progressing until they have all escaped the planet, and that is when the game ends. With a very familiar and easy to understand gameplay and controls, beautifully created visuals and immersive gameplay, RimWorld is a fun Construction and Management Simulation to enjoy.

The Bard’s Tale is a fantastic Fantasy-based Action-RPG video game. The game tasks you to be the main character Bard, whose beloved Princess Caleigh is kidnapped by an unknown enemy. It is now your responsibility to free her by using your Strength, Dexterity, Charisma, Luck and Vitality along with the finest combat skills. With a number of different difficulty levels, The Bard’s Tale lets you modify your player character with the help of all the given options, choose your talents and skills, choose your play style and get into the game-play. The Bard’s Tale lets you use two handed weapons and that makes the game a bit more interesting because two hand weapons means fast action and a thrilling game-play. The game is played from a top-down perspective that allows you to enjoy it a bit more. With solid Action and Thrill, amazing Action-RPG elements, beautiful visuals and an engaging game-play, The Bard’s Tale is a great game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.

The Escapists combines the Role-playing and Strategy elements developed by Mouldy Toof Studios and published by Team17. The game supports Single-player mode only and offers an exciting gameplay played from top-down view. The player assumes the role of the protagonist, an inmate and his primary objective is to escape from cage of increasing level difficulty. In the beginning, the player is capable of selecting the names of all guards and prisons. During the event, the player has to collect certain tools to aid in his escape, by bartering them from other prisoners, crafting them or stealing them. The player must participate in various activities like study enables the player to level up, exercise allows him to improve his abilities and chance to escape. The player needs to follow daily prison routines, and efforts to remain undetected by the guards. There are several methods to escape such as roof escape, via vents, inciting riots, and other. The Escapists offers core features such as Ten Operational Prisons, Ten different Jobs, more than 185 unique Items, Multiple Escapes, Leaderboards and more. Try it out.

Human Resource Machine created and published by Tomorrow Corporation is a Visual-Programming-based Puzzle and Single-player video game for multiple platforms. The game uses the corporation office’s concept, where worker assigned to perform specific tasks that involve various objects between inbox to outbox, from the storage areas as a metaphor. The player needs to solve several puzzles to create a program and accomplish a particular task. Up to forty programming problems are available in the game, and each considers one of the avatars of the player in the office structure. In each level, the player must create a list of instructions from a command and control the movement of his avatar from a top-down perspective. The level difficulty will be increased, as the player progresses through the game. The office comprises two conveyor belts such as an inbox and outbox. Human Resource Machine includes prominent features such as attractive Soundtracks, immersive Gameplay, and brilliant mechanics, etc. Human Resource Machine is the best game to play and enjoy.

Plague Inc: Evolved combines the elements of Real-time Strategy (RTS), Adventure, and Simulation by Ndemic Creations and available to play on cross platforms. It is the remake of the addictive game known as Plague Inc and revolves around the player as he create his dangerous pathogen and struggle to destroy the human population. The game supports both Single and Multiplayer mode and puts the player on an epic adventure where he has to create his unique and deadly disease and spread it out around the globe to infect the human and slaughter them all before the team of doctor finds the cure. The core gameplay is the same as Plague Inc. Unlock further features by progressing through the game and upgrade your plague to become it unbeatable. Use different medium to spread your disease like sea, transport and air. Plague Inc: Evolved offers prominent features such as Co-op mode, Scenarios Creator, 3D environment, City Cams, Body Scanner, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy the game enhanced mechanics, gameplay, and sound.

Transport Fever is a City-building, Management, Strategy and Single-player Business Simulation developed by Urban Games and published by Gambitious Digital Entertainment. The game takes place in 1985 and lets the player create his dream transport company. The primary objective of the player is to create stations, harbors, airports, and make as much money as possible to become the business tycoon. It has two different modes such as Campaign and Endless and has over 120 different Trains, Ships, Trams, Aircraft and Trucks. Construct your Transport Empire, select the best routes, and transport passengers and cargo from one place to another place and earn money. Expand your empire further and further by offering the best services and defeat against rival tycoons. Use your money to purchase trains, aircraft, ships and more. It offers randomly generated the world with realistic dimensions. There are over twenty-five challenging achievements, and the game will unlock as you advanced. Fulfill the needs of people and watch massive cities evolve dynamically. With prominent features, addictive gameplay, and wonderful mechanics, Transport Fever is the best game for those who love playing Business Simulations.

Hotline Miami is an Action, Violent, Top-down, and Single-player Shooter video game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital. The game takes place in the fictional world Miami in 1989 and follows tow protagonists named Biker and Jacket. According to the story, the protagonist receives a calls who instruct them to start operation against the Local Russian Mafia. You can select your character and dive into the game world where you can explore it from top-down perspective with stealth element. As the story progress, the game becomes more challenging violent and you have to face different challenges such as powerful foes, and objectives. The entire game is divided into several chapters and each chapter has a set of several stages. Explore each level, obtain power-ups, score the highest points and unlock further content. Slaughter the members of Russian mafia using different weapons and keep your city clean from them. With breathtaking story, brilliant mechanics, and superb visuals, Hotline Miami is the best game to play and enjoy.