Dread
The Impossible Dream
Explore hostile worlds of your own creation with Dread, a game carved from the intense emotions buried in your favorite horror stories. Through individually crafted questionnaires, players are coaxed into revealing their characters’ abilities, shortcomings, personalities, and fears. These characters are plunged into macabre tales devised by the host based on those questions. Dread has a makeshift feel to it but it is a wonderfully engrossing game.
Bonus: Watch Will Wheaton from geek and sundry's table top play Dread
Mice and Mystics
Plaid Hat Games
Mice and Mystics is a family suitable role playing game with a wonderful story time like feel. You play soldiers that have been transformed into mice by the evil Vanestra and must save the kingdom. This game has won several awards including: 2013 Best New Boardgame and 2012 Game of the Year Nominee.
Bonus: Watch Will Wheaton from geek and sundry's table top play Mice and Mystics
Pandemic
Z-Man Games
Pandemic is a cooperative game where you play against the board to stop a spreading infection from taking over the world! The game has multiple difficulty levels, start easy and work your way up the the ultimate world saving challenge with your team. Pandemic has a great game mechanic where the draw deck it re-stacked on itself, upping the tension of the game dramatically.
Bonus: Watch Will Wheaton from geek and sundry's table top play Pandemic