To me, Haiclue feels like the missing link between something like Codenames and ‘serious’ boardgaming (non-party games). The emergent poetry is sometimes quite striking, but it’s still accessible enough that I’ve been able to introduce it to friends who don’t play anything heavy.
It’s also free to play on BoardGameArena, and I can’t recommend it enough.
Do you know the game Concept? It’s similar to that (at least with our house rules, I don’t remember if the official ones were different)