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Board game sales are booming as people seek off-screen connections
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Afternova is a good one. Light trading/bartering, fun theme, hidden objectives so it's hard to see a clear winner. Small box and easy to set up!
If you haven't played it, Carcassonne is the GOAT here. Hard to beat. Lots of planning, indirect conflict and vying for points, expansions later if you want. Very very good game you will not regret.
For something more serious, but still not too complex, you could try one of the "span" games - Wingspan is my pick. It does seem complex to set up and there are a lot of bits. It's not a very social game, though. Kind of like playing solitaire and then comparing afterwards.
Honorary mention to Inis which is my favourite game. Also reasonably easy to play but some of the rules can be hard to wrap your head around (the rulebook isn't super well written).