[STEAM] Look out, Expedition 33, a weird sitcom tie-in game from 2008 is coming for your Metacritic crown

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What's weird is that while the game's original huge surge in popularity in the past decade could easily be traced to 4chan and

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campaigns, the new one seems, as far as any currently interested Internet sleuth can tell, entirely organic.

Knowing 4chan, you're likely to expect this to be a bad game. Your assumption is correct. But did you expect it to be a stealth game? Well, it is, supposedly. And that's just one of the many baffling decisions that make Cory special. In an

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, the game's lead dev—who got the role for having three more months' worth of experience than the rest of the team—explained that the game was made in over a gruelling seven-month *******. There's no unifying core to Cory. It plays like a set of broken minigames, an amalgamation of leftover gameplay ideas the studio had from other games, because that is exactly what it was. Cory in the House was, if anything, a lesson in how not to pursue greed to develop a game, one that will now seemingly forever haunt the Metacritic Hall of Fame.

The Expedition 33 achievement that Cory is unlikely to beat

Expedition 33 also became one of the highest-rated titles in the critics bracket, having reached a massive 9.2 from them. So even if Cory in the House ends up teaching us some dark lessons about Metacritic's user rating democracy policies, its score is unlikely to rise much from "TBA out of 10" in the critics category, because not even four gaming outlets cared enough about it to review it upon release.

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