Escape Barcelona – Cybercity 2049

https://www.escapebarcelona.com/

Cybercity 2049 (Game duration 80 – 120 minutes)

Fury team: Anton KonduzovVelina TomovaHristo TomovDimitar Smilyanov and Nadezhda Danabasheva

Date: June 17, 2023

Our time: 80:24 minutes

Standing ovations for TERPECA’s top 6 last year and my absolute favorite in Barcelona. We went there after playing 6 rooms in a day, tired and dirty. I felt nothing but adrenaline and admiration during those 80 minutes. I will definitely return here. For me, this room is on par with The Dome, and if I have to explain which one is my favorite and why, I can’t. 

Just so you know, if you ever negotiate with a cyborg, magic no longer works. Because we were the first to make a deal this way, kudos to Dimitar. 

Cybercity 2049 photo 🎌🥮👩‍💻
The Cybercity 2049 photo, which was part of the game. We slightly bent the rules to get it, and they slightly bent the rules further and gave it to us. 🕹️❤️

Update 2024!

Casual Retirees team:  Ivan Minchev, Antonia Mincheva, Nush Krasteva, Stanislav Belev and Gencho Danabashev

Fury време: 90:00 minutes

Date: 2 February, 2024

Several months after our game at CyberCity, I couldn’t wait to revisit Barcelona and bring the Casual Retirees to the game. Perhaps I got too excited, and a few days before that, I was throwing comments about the game, expecting that among them, there are gamers, fans of the genre, who would appreciate the game. Ivan was so hyped about it that he even went and cleared out a Chinese shop near the Sagrada Familia, which later amazed the hosts, as they commented, ‘So far, no one has brought their own prop to the game and aftergame photos.’

From their comments, I understand that they had a slightly different experience than us. Ani understood the difference between ‘he doesn’t see you when you’re behind him’ and ‘he doesn’t see you when you don’t move.’ Like typical retirees, they complained about crawling. Ivan got involved in the bargains with the hacker as a typical negotiator, and in the end, they decided to overwhelm the actor with jokes about the boy who was cold. If you don’t know, the joke lasts about 15 minutes and works for hackers as well as dragons.

The decision not to have a safe place in the game personally didn’t appeal to me. For agitated people like me, this was a very meaningful option.