like board games???

Oh, I have so many recommendations. I'm sorry! This is really really really long! (sorry about that, Admins & readers) I got a bit overexcited...

Word games: simple, easy to play, word games—mostly because I love word games and I think it deserves it's own category.

- Boggle. There's a grid of changeable letter cubes and you have to make more words by using the letters than the opponent(s) before the timer runs out. If you have the same word as someone else, they all cancel, and you get points for each word you have that nobody else has. It's fast and relatively simple, and you can add your own rules for things like word limits and corner cases.

- Bananagrams. It's kind of like speed scrabble—there are a lot of letter tiles, and you have to make a grid (kind of like a crossword) of words. Each time you use all your letter tiles, you and the opponent(s) get one more from the middle pile, until there aren't enough tiles in the middle left for each person to get one, upon which the player who finishes their grid first wins. It's a fast game and your grid constantly changes, making it a fun challenge.

- Anomia. This isn't that similar to the two previous ones. It's a category game, where you flip cards and if your symbol matches someone else's then you have to say an item in the category on their card before they say an item in the category on your card. It's pretty chaotic and best played with more people.

Further word games include Scategories, Taboo, and Scrabble. 

Family board games: I'd say this category is fun family games, so three players or more, but reasonably complicated and they incorporate real strategy. Not party games, but something more substantial.

- Seven Wonders. This is my family's go-to game (mostly because we can never agree on anything else). You are the leader of the city of one of the seven wonders of the world, and you play cards of different types that give you resources and points, like money, military, resources to build other cards (such as clay, stone, papyrus, cloth, etc), science symbols, or straight up victory points. This game is especially fun because everyone takes their turn at the same time, so it's quicker and more interactive. There are also a lot of great expansion packs for this game that add things such as naval forces and other sea-related pursuits, diplomacy, leader cards who give you special benefits, and more.

- Everdell. You are trying to build a city filled with critters—such as moles, squirrels, turtles, and rabbits—and constructions—such as court houses, schools, shops, and the mythical "Ever Tree". They cost resources—berries, sticks, stone, and resin—and give benefits such as more resources, cards, or victory points. This game is very well thought out and the artwork is phenomenal.

- Cartographers. This one, I admit, requires less strategy and is simpler, but it's still a great choice. Each player is a royal cartographer trying to draw the best map. You have a plain map sheet, upon which you draw shapes of different terrain types—farmland, village, forest, or water—and later get points for different objectives, which are randomly selected before the game begins. There are also monster cards, upon which you pass your map to the player on either the left or the right of you, and they draw a monster shape on your map, which will be worth negative points later. This game is fun because it's extra hands-on—actual drawing involved!

Another family game like these is Wingspan.

More in-depth games. These are high-level strategy games that are way longer and much heavier than the family games. They're more challenging by far.

- Terraforming Mars. You're working with a corporation (a card of your choice) to terraform Mars, raising the oxegyn meter, placing oceans, and raising the temperature. You and your opponents are working together to raise those levels, but you are still competing, as whoever has the most points wins. You earn points from playing cards, which give you benefits such as resources—money, steel, titanium, plants, energy, and heat—or cities and greeneries, which you put on a board (for later points), card drawing abilities, straight-up victory points, or other things. This game is so cool because of the sheer number of cards and possibilities. It's also well made, the concept is interesting, and there isn't a strategy that will win each time, which is nice.

- Feast for Odin. You are a viking and you go to actions that give you pieces to place on your board, to cover up negative points and get other resources. It has a puzzle element, because some types of pieces can't go next to each other. You can get resources in a variety of actions, including hunting game, pillaging, going to the market, and more. This game is pretty long, which gives you ample time to aquire more boards to fill and points to get.

- Alchemists. This game has a great plot—you're an apprentice alchemist and you have to forage for ingredients, test potions, and publish/endorce/debunk papers. There are eight ingredients with a chemical formula that's randomized before each game, and the object of the game (apart from getting the most points) is to figure out which ingredient corresponds to which chemical make-up by combining them (there's a phone app that goes along with this game) and seeing what they make—positive potions (which give you benefits), negative potions (which are bad), and soup (which does absolutely nothing and there is no point to it). I love this game because the concept is so cool and it's always interesting because the answers switch.

Other in-depth games I enjoy are Terra Mystica, Gaia Project, Barrage, and Brass (Birmingham).

I completely forgot about making a thread for game suggestions :( sorry.

Anyway, these are my suggestions  - 

-Settlers of Catan (or else it's just called Catan, I'm not sure).  It's a board game where you build towns and cities using resources in order to gain victory points - you can also steal from your neighbors on the island, trade for other resources, and get special cards that help you out in unexpected ways. It's pretty much just like the games Hex described - I was surprised by how similar they are.

-Chinese Checkers - this is a classic board game where you try and move all your pieces to the other side of the board, even jumping over other people's pieces in the process!

-Scotland Yard - a board game where one person is a wanted criminal, "Mr. X", and the other players are policemen, trying to arrest Mr. X. They chase Mr. X all over the board and usually catch him in the end, despite the fact that Mr. x only rarely reveals his position. It's really exciting to be Mr. X...