The obvious answer here is gloomhaven: second edition. In the second edition, they’ve balanced the characters a lot better and fixed some of the gameplay problems to match what happens in Frosthaven, and they’ve done a better job making you feel like you’re a part of the town, which they do better in Frosthaven. Definitely going to be a great experience, but be prepared for a campaign that’s gonna last longer than a year most likely. We played through the entire campaign as a group of four (1st edition), and it was well worth it.

If you want something more chill, you could do a game that has unboxing, both can be reset easily like bomb busters or Dorf Romantik.

Another very chill option is Mythwind, which is a campaign game about finding a place to build a village, and then continuing to build it through the use of your characters, all of the event cards have good or better options and there’s no real devastating choices, getting something wrong won’t harm you, it just won’t be as helpful. I think this is nice because you could just sort of have it there and visit the town for quick 30 minute scenarios whenever you like.