Middling

A two-person 18-card game about bats racing down a creek along the Big Sur coast in California.

Thrifting is a semi-cooperative game where you are your friends hit up the local thrift shop so you can look So Good.
It's the "Secretary Problem" in shopping/boardgame form.

A violent winter storm has set in and you’re still at sea. Fifteen miles from port. Your ship is taking damage. Sailors are going overboard.
The storm doesn't care if you make it home.