Traditional fighting games, I suppose, namely older anime fighters/airdashers, at more than a super casual level. Among those, I find Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R and BlazBlue: Central Fiction to be especially complex but also so, so rewarding when you put in the time to learn them.
Just to give you an example, this is a sort of basic combo for Kokonoe, the character I play in BlazBlue: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=U8j0mmLJ4zo&t=95 . I have been practicing for weeks and I'm still halfway through that.
Europa Universalis 4, Crusader Kings and XCOM in harder difficulties in iron man mode. I love brooding over difficult decisions and devising strategies in turn-based (and similar) games.
Dominions 5 - Fantasy turn based fantasy strategy game with tons of nations often based on real world mythology mixed with fantasy elements.
Kingdom Death: Monster - Tabletop (play on tabletop sim) game that mixes Darksouls/Monster Hunter like boss-fights with a little bit of Darkest Dungeons like colony management/attrition/madness
Kingdom Death: Monster is awesome. Love it to death. It's also absolutely terrifying in so many ways. From learning the rules, setting up the game and obviously playing it. Unfortunately we never play it because of location. Sometimes a years goes by between sessions and we are always too overwhelmed setting everything up and getting back into the rules.
There is a pretty decent scripted tabletop simulator for Kingdom Death. Me and a couple buddies player five or six session and we were able to pick up and play pretty quickly.
I was super in to Dominions 3 back in the day, played it online a ton, won a few big games. It's got a brutal learning curve though. Late game when the turns were on a 96 hour timer and that still felt too short..
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