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Scott McCrae

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's title of Metacritic's highest player-rated game comes under threat from seminal Nintendo DS classic Cory in the House: "The gaming industry peaked with this game. Anyone else saying otherwise is delusional"

Cory in the house poster showing cory with the white house.

Metacritic's top-rated games of all time list is facing an unstoppable contender who is operating from The White House – the 2008 Nintendo DS classic, Cory in the House.

User scores can be a weird thing; you have the likes of the IMDB top 250 that will tell you Interstellar is better than Seven Samurai and The Silence of the Lambs, but weirdly Metacritic's top games list is solid. Within the top 10 are Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill 2, The Witcher 3's Blood and Wine expansion, and two versions of the greatest game of all time, Metal Gear Solid 3. But it was rocked last year when Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 arrived and became the highest-rated game of all time when it comes to user score, where it sits today… but there is another.

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