Heavy games are the best . Light games often tend to feel like a sprint , it ' s over quickly and you don ' t really feel like you accomplished anything . Heavier games are endurance games and make you feel like you ' ve achieved something at the end of it . If you mess up at the beginning , it ' s impossible to come back in many light games or they add catch up mechanics that make it too easy to come back . In heavier games , you can mess up , but you can potentially come back , other people might make a few mistakes as well . List of heavy games I ' ve played and enjoyed Twilight Struggle , Paths of Glory , Cry Havoc , War of the Ring , Through the Ages , Twilight Imperium 3 , Churchill , Genesis Empires and Kingdoms of the Ancient Middle East .