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

In 2024, most of Metacritic’s top spots seemed comfortably cemented. In 2025, however, a JRPG from France rose to the user ratings’ #1 spot. Now, there’s a new challenger in the form of Cory in the House, a dumb TV show tie-in that is obviously driven by memes.

Ratings analysts woke up shaken by a bonkers shift in the Metacritic user ranking balance. Out of nowhere, there was Cory in the House, nearing Expedition 33’s tremendous 9.6 score. While the 0.3 points separating the two are quite the mountain to climb, being at 9.3 means it took Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater’s previously held #2 spot, as well as kicked every other game in existence one step down the ladder.

What is even Cory in the House?

With very rare exceptions, video game tie-ins can only ever hope to capture a minimal percentage of what makes the main property resonate with audiences. Cory in the House was originally a Disney Channel show from ’08 about a kid moving into the White House. The DS tie-in game was destined to be forgotten. And yet, the 2010s saw the game—not the show—become a huge meme.

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 Reddit 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 interview with Kotaku, 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 period. 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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The Flickering Flames project has ended, and winter is over in ARC Raiders, but we still keep marching on towards completing the second Expedition project.

Season 2 has seen plenty of twists and turns in how some of the old mechanics have worked since launch. The foundation still revolves around getting loot, and then keeping some and recycling the rest.

This guide will give you some quick information about what items you should keep and what should be either sold or recycled.

All items in ARC Raiders you should sell or recycle (Season 2)

The following table has a bunch of items that can be safely recycled or sold whenever you obtain them.

Item	Rarity	Value
Alarm Clock	Rare	1000
Barricade Kit	Uncommon	640
Broken Guidance System	Rare	2000
Broken Handcuffs	Uncommon	640
Broken Handheld Radio	Rare	2000
Burned ARC Circuitry	Uncommon	640
Camera Lens	Uncommon	640
Coolant	Rare	1000
Crumpled Plastic Bottle	Uncommon	270
Damaged ARC Powercell	Uncommon	293
Deflated Football	Uncommon	1000
Diving Goggles	Rare	640
Dried-Out ARC Resin	Uncommon	640
Expired Respirator	Rare	640
Flame Spray	Uncommon	2000
Headphones	Rare	1000
Household Cleaner	Uncommon	640
Industrial Charger	Rare	1000
Number Plate	Uncommon	90
Polluted Air Filter	Rare	1000
Radio	Rare	1000
Remote Control	Rare	1000
Ruined Baton	Uncommon	640
Ruined Handcuffs	Uncommon	640
Rusted Bolts	Uncommon	640
Rusty ARC Steel	Uncommon	640
Thermostat	Rare	1000
Sample Cleaner	Rare	3000
Speaker Component	Rare	500
Unstable Weapon	Rare	2000

Items to keep for Expedition Project 2 in ARC Raiders

Here’s the list of items you’ll have to keep for Expedition Project 2.

Stage 1

Item	Req. Quantity
Metal Parts	150
Plastic Parts	200
ARC Alloy	80
Steel Spring	15

Stage 2

Item	Req. Quantity
Durable Cloth	35
Wires	25
Electrical Components	20
Cooling Coils	4

Stage 3

Item	Req. Quantity
Light Bulbs	4
Battery	30
Shredder Gyro	10
Exodus Modules	1

Stage 4

Item	Req. Quantity
Frequency Mod Box	5
Advanced Electronic Components	5
Ion Sputters	3
Leaper Pulse Unit	3

Stage 5

Item	Req. Quantity
Combat Items	Sell 200,000 coins worth of items
Survival Items	Sell 100,000 coins worth of items
Provisions	Sell 150,000 coins worth of items
Materials	Sell 300,000 coins worth of items

Items to keep for workshop upgrades in ARC Raiders

If you chose to wipe your accounts after the first Expedition, you might still require some or more of the items in the following table.

Workshops to upgrade	Items you should keep
Scrappy	Dog Collar, Lemon, Apricot, Prickly Pear, Olives, Cat Bed, Mushroom, Apricot, Very Comfortable Pillow
Gunsmith	Rusted Tools, Mechanical Components, Wasp Driver, Rusted Gear, Advanced Mechanical Components, Sentinel Firing Core
Medical Lab	Cracked Bioscanner, Durable Cloth, Tick Pod, Rusted Shut Medical Kit, Antiseptic, Surveyor Vault
Explosives Station	Synethesized Fuel, Crude Explosives, Pop Trigger, Laboratory Reagents, Explosive Compound, Rocketeer Driver
Gear Bench	Power Cable, Hornet Driver, Electrical Components, Industrial Battery, Advanced Electrical Components, Bastion Cell
Refiner	Toaster, ARC Motion Core, Fireball Burner, Motor, ARC Circuitry, Bombardier Cell
Utility	Damaged Heat Sink, Electrical Components, Snitch Scanner, Fried Motherboard, Advanced Electrical Components, Leaper Pulse Unit

Best items to recycle for core components in ARC Raiders

There’s a bunch of base, core, and high-tiered components you’ll need regularly throughout Season 2.

Item you get	Item you Salvage
Rubber Parts	ARC Flex Rubber, Rubber Pad
Plastic Parts	Ruined Riot Shield, ARC Synthetic Resin
Chemicals	Cooling Coil, ARC Coolant
Fabric	Tattered ARC Lining, Ruined Parachute, Torn Blanket
Metal Parts	Ice Cream Scooper, Garlic Press, Frying Pan, Candle Holder, Bicycle Pump, ARC Performance Steel
Advanced Mechanical Components	Flow Controller, Leaper Pulse Unit, Microscope, Mini Centrifuge
Advanced Electrical Components	Spectrometer, Frequency Mod Box, Telemetry Receiver
Steel Spring	Rusted Tools, Spring Cushion, Cooling Coil, Accordion
Magnet	Exodus Modules, Microscopes, Ripped Safety Vest, Industrial Magnet
Electrical Components	Rotary Encoder, Fried Motherboard, Signal Amplifier, Hornet Driver
Mechanical Components	Rusted Gear, Shredder Gyro, Turbo Pump, Sentinel Firing Core
Battery	Broken Flashlight, Geiger Counter, Cracked Bioscanner, Broken Taser, Power Bank, Portable TV
Wires	Broken Handheld Radio, Power Cable, Projector, Portable TV

Some of the feeder items on the table above will be required for Expedition Project 2. Only use the items for recycling purposes after you have completed the stages of the second expedition project.

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