A Disney Channel tie-in game for the Nintendo DS is climbing the Metacritic user rankings and threatening to overtake last year’s Game of the Year winner, the much-loved Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Cory in the House, a “stealth adventure game” based on the That’s So Raven spinoff, has been the subject of ironic praise for over a decade, but a recent spike in user reviews has pushed it to within striking distance of the top spot.
Cory in the House has been a running joke since 2013, when 4chan’s /v/ board organized a campaign to make it the most-requested FAQ on GameFAQs. The game became known for being hilariously bad, with a 35% aggregate score from critics, yet meme culture latched onto it and has uncharacteristically held on tight.
By 2025, it had settled at a 9.3 user score on Metacritic, ranking as the seventh-highest user-rated game on the site until a few weeks ago when Clair Obscur shot to the top of Metacritic’s user rankings with a 9.7 score following its Game of the Year sweep at this year’s Game Awards.
In the past 24 hours alone, Cory in the House has received a few dozen perfect reviews, pushing its score to 9.4, while Clair Obscur has dropped to 9.5. Even more interesting: there’s no evidence of an organized reverse review-bombing campaign this time around.
A handful of suspicious zero scores for Clair Obscur have appeared, but the steady stream of perfect ratings for a 17-year-old licensed DS game is doing most of the heavy lifting. Whether this ends up being another wave of ironic internet cynicism or a genuine effort to knock a French indie RPG off its throne, Cory in the House is on track to claim Metacritic’s top spot.
Source: Kotaku
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