Every year my family picks a "theme" and everyone brings a gift from that theme and we all trade, which works pretty well and this game we are doing card and board games, and since I'm "the gamer" of the family, they have asked for a list of good games under $50 that they might pick from.
What are some good games under $50 that normies would enjoy?
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A couple sets of Magic duel decks
Ticket to Ride is great fun, Betrayal at the House on the Hill is also fantastic
Katan is nice, ticket to ride, Machiavelli, Carcassonne
Seconding Betrayal. Ticket to Ride is approaching Monopoly levels of not fun.
If your family can handle PVP:
- Secret Hitler
- Sheriff of Nottingham
- Betrayal at House on the Hill *
- Spyfall
If co-op or non-hostile is better, maybe:
- Pandemic *
- Forbidden Island (easier than Pandemic)
- Mysterium *
Other:
- Dixit
- Codenames (technically team v team)
- Snake Oil
- Superfight
- Red Flags (possibly off-color)
(Snake Oil, Superfight, and Red Flags share similar mechanics, so I recommend picking up the one that seems most interesting to your family and getting the others later if they enjoy the style.)
I've marked those that I feel may be more difficult with a *.
You may also consider the Jackbox Partypack games for PC. My personal favorite of the four packs is 3, but they all have at least one interesting game. You just need one copy of the game and everyone else will need access to a cellphone, tablet, or PC browser.
Easy mode:
- Sushi go
- Dixit
- King of tokyo
- Once upon a time
- Stone age
- Munchkin
Hard mode:
These are cooperative games in wich all win or none wins but if they can handle monopoly and dont kill each other thers no problem:
- Forbidden Island
- Forbidden desert
- Dead of winter
- Ghost stories
- Pandemic
Search games in kickstarter, they have a lot of confy games there.
Or you can make your own game in thegamecrafter.com
Jericho, is that you?
To add to this list:
One Night Ultimate Werewolf (even has a mobile app for ease of use at the table)
Red Scare (hilarious fun to accuse everyone else of being a communist)
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