Like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, this is another game that’s on this list primarily because it exemplifies and perfects one of my favorite genres. In this case, it’s turn-based, squad tactics games — and the XCOM series is the best out there. You don’t see too many of these, especially back in the years before XCOM: Enemy Unknown returned the genre to life from the brink of death. There was the little-known Silent Storm series, which is fantastic if a little unpolished, but aside from those I can’t even think of any other examples in the 21st century. Maybe the