Escape Barcelona: KONG Protocol

This experience was pretty disappointing and hugely overhyped. Heavily tech based puzzles (a couple of which required overrides as weren’t working correctly) poor story development with extremely limited use of an actor. Much better options in Barcelona. 

Having read everyones reviews hyping this game up, and recommendations from felow enthusiasts telling me this game is a "can't miss" experience,  I have to say, we both left KONG feeling a bit let down. Various pieces of tech and decor were broken (including one key interactive element that our game master had to pop in and walk us around as it was impassable due to "maintenence issues").

The game play itself wasn't anything particularly special or memorable and in many places it was too dark to even see what we were meant to be doing.

There are definitely much more enjoyable games in Barcelona (in my opinion) without the lofty price tag. If you're going to charge a minimum of €140, maybe try to make sure your interactive elements are maintained to a working standard 🤷🏼‍♀️.

Had been hyped to play this as had enjoyed cyber city on previous trip but left quite disappointed. The puzzle interactions felt quite random and incredibly repetitive - constant electronic interfaces which were frankly pretty dull. We felt it could also have been a lot more intense as actor interaction is left until close to the very end. There were some nice elements to the set and one cool transition. 

This is the one we were looking toward to most. Loved Cyber city and had high hopes for their newest offering. 

Disclaimer - they had technical issues and meant we couldn’t complete one of the rooms in the game. 

Aside from that hiccup, which does happen, we were a little disappointed.

It started off great, tense, tech forward but felt let down by the lack of sign posting (what opened, where to place things etc.). The puzzles weren’t that fun either for the most part. In cyber city you have multiple points of interaction with actors, here you don’t so much.

Didn’t really see the wow moments as seen it done before. 

One sequence was great fun and lasted a while, however the ending was a little anti climatic and didn’t feel in keeping with quality you would expect.

Just wasn’t for us and don’t think the malfunction of the room made that much difference.

Amazing decor, immersive acting and great use of space. Huge playground with very varied puzzles, rooms, props. Involves lots of fun with team and culminates in an epic finale. 

An amazing experience. A lot to do but a clear consistent story throughout with some great stand out moments and a huge range of puzzles. Only downside was we are wimps and selected no jump scares but there was no interaction with  the games master prior to starting the room so we weren't sure if they had acknowledged the request and spent the first thirty minutes peeing our paants