Best Free Top-Down View Games for PC in 2024!

Listen up all of you 8­bit lovers out there! As the name would suggest, 8BitMMO is a free to play retro­style 2D massively multiplayer game!

AirMech is a 3D sci-fi RTS by Carbon Games, available in the browser (Chrome) and through Steam With DotA-style gameplay players control a transforming mech, that can take flight at a moments notice in this strategy based game. Combat on the ground or switch to air to fly around and pick up units to transport.

Taking its cues from its predecessor, Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop is a free-to-play action shooter with a top-down view and tons of extra-terrestrial baddies to exterminate. Reactive Drop includes an extensive campaign mode, PvP, and a vast array of deadly weapons to mince and mangle with.

Angels Online is a free to play 2D Fantasy MMORPG with great anime style graphics and lots of classes. Players can fight for 1 of 4 realms in Angels Online.

Valve's Dota 2 CCG Artifact is now free-to-play, coming in two different versions: Classic and Foundry. Artifact Classic plays like the game when it launched, offering wilder, more chaotic battles, while Artifact Foundry puts more emphasis on heroes and reduces the game's overall randomness.

Astral Heroes is a free-to-play collectible card game that offers some unique twists and variations on the classic CCG formula. The follow-up to Apus Software's Astral Masters, Astral Heroes offers many different game modes, including a PvE campaign, draft tournaments, and random deck matchups, as well as the ability to track your progress on leaderboards to see how you match up against other players from around the world.

From the same dev team that brought you Bloodline Champions comes Battlerite, a free-to-play MOBA with a cast of colorful characters and a focus on skill-based gameplay. With a focus on short matches and fast action, Battlerite plays at a frenetic pace and offers spectator mode so you can cheer on your favorite players.

Battlerite Royale is a free-to-play battle royale game based on the popular gameplay from Stunlock Studios' Battlerite. Join in the action on a map that's 30 times larger than your typical Battlerite map but watch out for the encroaching Death Vortex, which will spell your doom!

Lead your armies to victory in YC Games' free-to-play medieval battle simulator Blood of Steel! Take on the role of a famous general from history, from Julius Caesar to Joan of Arc to Lyu Bu and charge into battle at the head of an elite core of warriors.

Bloodline Champions is a free to play 3D arena-based PvP MMO game published by Funcom, and has been compared to Defense of the Ancients and World of Warcraft Arena. But instead of relying on killing creeps or grinding for the best set of gear, Bloodlines is a more skill-based game.

Merge classic bomber action with modern battle royale in Bombergrounds: Battle Royale, a free-to-play game from Gigantic Duck Games. Place your bombs to forge new paths or eliminate your enemies, but beware -- your opponents are looking to do the same, and only one animal can come out on top!

Bombtag is a free-to-play multiplayer Bomberman-inspired game. Game rounds support up to 8 players and last just a few minutes, allowing for quick matches when you only have a little time.

Card Hunter is a 2D browser-based game that combines elements of a trading card game and table-top gaming. Developed and published by Blue Manchu, Card Hunter gives players the experience to play as a person, playing a role-playing game.

Explore, build, and trade in Catan Universe, an online free-to-play version of the legendary Settlers of Catan board game! You start with just a pair of small settlements on a randomly generated island.

Experience a rich fantasy world and strategic gameplay in Chroma: Bloom And Blight, a free-to-play CCG from Clarity Games. Choose a hero to build a deck around, and choose from the game's four factions with no limits.

Crystal Clash is a free-to-play fantasy castle siege RTS from Crunchy Leaf Game. Form your armies from dozens of strong units and powerful spells and take on both PvE bosses and competitive matches against other players.

Cubic Castles is a 3D voxel-based adventure MMO from Cosmic Cow. Jump into a destructible world that is yours to mine, terraform, build, and destroy with as you please, all so your realm can grow.

Take on the zombie hordes in Dead Maze, a free-to-play 2-D massively multiplayer cooperative game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Players will have to work together to hunt and survive and to rebuild society.

Hop into PvP card battles that minimize RNG and allow skill to shine.

Diablo Immortal is an all-new massively multiplayer online action RPG and Blizzard’s long advertised mobile Diablo experience (that totally was not coming to PC) comes to PC complete with all the demon slaying and looting you could want.

Dofus is a 2D free-to-play MMORPG from Ankama Games. With a detailed art style, tactical battles, and ever expanding world, players will have no shortage of battle, exploration, or crafting options to partake in.

Based on the famous miniature board game Confrontation, Dogs of War Online is a unique free-to-play, turn-based tactical game that sets players in a three way conflict between the forces of Light, Dark, and Destiny. Players will have to build their troops and engage in fierce battles on behalf of their employers, whoever they may be.

Dota 2 is a 3D MOBA published by Valve. The official remake of the original Dota mod, Dota 2 brings over 100 original heroes from the original.

Take on all comers in Dota Underlords, Valve's free-to-play auto-chess variant based on the game it all started with, Dota 2. Recruit your heroes from the shadowy underbelly of White Spire and send them off to war against seven opponents, or against AI bots, in automated battles, where strategy and planning count for more than clicking speed and reflexes.

Eldevin is a free-to-play Browser MMORPG (and client), from Hunted Cow Studios. Set in the Eldevin Kingdom, players must protect their homeland against the Emperor of the Infernal Empire, hell bent on obtaining powerful artifacts which are sure to plunge the kingdom into chaos and confusion.

Enter a world of strategy and subterfuge in Dire Wolf Digital's free-to-play competitive online CCG Eternal, designed by professional CCG players. Eternal strives for a strategic CCG experience on par with the best games in the physical realm, while optimizing the experience for online, digital gampelay.

Take on all comers in Nimble Neuron's free-to-play MOBA/survival/battle royale mash-up Eternal Return: Black Survival. The scientific organization AGLAIA is creating a race of advanced humans with amazing powers and putting them to the test in experimental battles against one another to see who comes out on top!

An "old school MMORPG" that pays tribute to those that came before it.

A MOBA more in line with Battlerite ideas rather than League of Legends ideas.