Reddit reviews XCOM: The Board Game, Standard Packaging
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A co-operative board game of global defense for 1-4 players based on the award-winning video game, XCOM: enemy unknownA free and innovative digital app coordinates the escalating alien invasion, teaches you the game, and serves as your rules referencePlayers assume four distinct roles, each of which is vital to XCOM's success: commander, chief scientist, central officer, and squad leaderA push-your-luck dice mechanic partners with the use of the app to heighten the game's tension and dramaIncludes sixteen sculpted XCOM soldiers, eight interceptors, and twenty-four UFOs
$40 shipped on Amazon
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XCOM The Boardgame? Vintage game series that may have a degree of nostalgia, decent art, up to 4 player cooperative game, decent complexity.
Descent as a dungeon crawl themed arena pit fighting race game for 2-5 (1 evil player vs the rest)? The Road to Legend app has pure cooperative campaigns to play.
Defenders of the Realm as a cooperative siege defense game where you have 4 generals closing in on a city and your heroes must work together to drive them off?
Shadows of Brimstone as a weird west dungeon crawler, pure cooperative. What monsters you get depends on what set you get, and you can expand is.
D&D Board Games as cooperative dungeon crawling in one of the well established worlds of D&D.
These are a few you can look into that might work. I'm sure there are others who have better ideas, as not all my suggestions have gorgeous art or are super complex.
I'm in the 40+ yr old category buy my interests are different - games I really enjoy at this count are the GMT COIN series, Splotter games (not in your budget except for their one not too successful game), Sierra Madre Games (heavy more science based games - the rules are a challenge to get through for most, but they offer some of the meatiest game play in my collection), and civ game called 7 Ages. All of these take a few hours to play and are quite a commitment not only learning the rules but learning to play - and they are incredible experiences. I used to like WoW, comics, videogames, and so on; but my passion was originally tabletop rpgs and now is board gaming - these titles really make up the core of my collection.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention Eldritch Horror as an awesome cooperative epic adventure game - a handful of investigators trying to solve 3 mysteries and prevent an ancient Lovecraftian horror from awakening? That one might work also.