I have always had a long lasting love for virtually anything strategical. It can be the good ol’ RTS’ like Age of Empires and Starcraft(What if I told you I still have the first one installed?) and their more tactical, more complex versions like Dawn of War or Company of Heroes, it can be the grand strategy games so vast in scope like the Paradox’ many gems(Crusader Kings 2, Europa Universalis IV, Hearts of Iron III, Victoria II…), it can be holding that certain niche Total War holds, or it can be tactical, squad-based small scale stuff like the XCOM games. One exception is the Civilization series which I never really was a fan of.