Room Escape Artist

Jurásico is one of the best escape rooms in Barcelona. Here are our recommendations for other great escape rooms in Barcelona, Spain.

Spared no expense!

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Date Played: July 3, 2025

Team Size: 2-6; we recommend 2-3

Duration: 120 minutes

Price:  €60 per player for 2 players, €40 per player for 3-6 players

Ticketing: Private

Accessibility Consideration: All players must climb and crawl.

Mess Meter:  🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹 (out of 5)

Emergency Exit Rating: [F] No Emergency Exit as far as we could tell

Physical Restraints: [A+] No Physical Restraints

REA Reaction

Golden Pop’s Jurásico pulled off a staggering feat of movie magic: they brought to life a living, breathing jungle beneath the streets of central Barcelona. But unlike in the movies, they couldn’t rely on any camera trickery or fancy CGI. They made the real thing.

When escape rooms talk about being cinematic, rarely do they reach the heights that Jurásico achieved. Our experience began the moment we stepped into Golden Pop’s movie theater lobby and continued without break through the final exhilarating moments of the film. We entered into an immense, detailed, and compelling world with full-sensory immersion. The lighting and sound design were brilliant, and we experienced some unforgettably iconic cut scenes. Many Barcelona escape rooms are dirty, and Jurásico earned its 5 🧹s on the Mess Meter for being not just dusty but also muddy.

As the name suggests, Jurásico paid tribute to the Jurassic Park film franchise. While the experience included a multitude of Easter eggs that will particularly delight super-fans, the story and setting all made sense even if, like me, you watched the original film ages ago but the details are a bit fuzzy.

Where Jurásico fell short was in the gameplay itself. It wasn’t bad, and there were some reasonably fun and diegetic puzzles in the mix, but it was nowhere close to the sky high bar set by the set design and general experiential flow. Many puzzles felt small and underdeveloped in the massive space, and there often wasn’t that much to actually do at any given time. In many senses, Jurásico fell into the exact trap that I warned of in a recent article: “The larger the space, the more difficult it is to design gameplay that meaningfully fills it.”

When so much effort and expense was put into the set design, it was also surprising to encounter more out-of-place “escape room-y” elements like cheap plastic locks and glowing buttons. It felt like Golden Pop focused first on building an epic environment, and only later considered the details of how players should actually spend their time in it.

Nevertheless, Jurásico was an astonishing showstopper experience that any escape room enthusiast visiting Barcelona should include on their itinerary, especially for players who value set design and spectacle. Golden Pop has created something truly special.

Who is this for?

• Scenery snobs
• Adventure seekers
• Story seekers
• Any experience level
• Jurassic Park fans

Why play?

• Blockbuster set design with full sensory immersion
• A physical, fully embodied adventure
• The ultimate tribute to the Jurassic Park films

Story

We stepped into the cinematic world of a jungle theme park once filled with prehistoric creatures. Our mission: to recover some golden dinosaur eggs that were said to be worth a fortune.

Setting

Jurásico took place in the fabled Jurassic Park, a lush jungle densely filled with prehistoric flora, wire mesh fencing, and various amusements. The setting was sprawling and realistic, somewhere between a top-notch movie set and the real thing.

Gameplay

Golden Pop’s Jurásico was a standard escape room with a moderate level of difficulty.

Core gameplay revolved around making connections and solving puzzles.

Analysis

➕ The set design in Jurásico was jaw-dropping. Natural settings, with trees and plants, are infamously difficult to get right indoors, yet Golden Pop took a bold approach: rather than cobbling together fake plants that sort of looked like a jungle, they grew an actual jungle. They also took appropriate measures to properly maintain this unique setting. The non-organic elements were equally impressive, with a high level of polish, detail, and realness.

➕ Jurásico contained an abundance of awe-inspiring reveals and transitions. Cinematic lighting, sound, and sensory design further upped the immersion. It truly felt like we were in a movie.

➖ Within such an impressive set, some of the gameplay felt comparatively small or insignificant. Apart from a few segments of overly open-ended searching, the puzzles were generally well clued; they just didn’t always take full advantage of the scale and highly tactile nature of the environment. They also didn’t provide all that much for a team to do at any given time. For my 2-player team, my teammate and I each had an active role the entire game, but talking with players who’ve visited Jurásico with 4 or more players, some players were often left to just wander around the space when puzzles could only reasonably be worked on by 2-3 players (though of all the experiences to just explore and admire, Jurásico has to be one of the best!)

➕/➖  Golden Pop created a layered theatrical entrance into the world and story of Jurásico. Each individual segment was thoughtfully presented and told a clear story, but together, the exposition dragged on for too long. There was also some redundancy between video and actor-presented elements. With some more tightening up, Jurásico could have kept more momentum leading into the core experience.

➕ Jurásico succeeded in spatially disorienting us fairly early on, and we got effortlessly lost in the fantastical world they’d constructed. The gameplay was at its best when it utilized the unique layout of the space in creative ways.

➖ Leading into a particularly dramatic moment, we were verbally instructed multiple times to stay in a certain location, even when already in place. An ambiguous interaction during this segment had unclear feedback, but it furthermore could have easily been tweaked to provide smoother nonverbal cluing to keep us right where we needed to be.

➕/➖ For a blockbuster hit like Jurásico, the finale was appropriately exciting, dramatic, and over-the-top. Yet, there was room to further smooth out some of the edges, particularly the transitions in and out of this scene.

➕ Jurásico offered an epic post-game team photo opportunity. There was a canonical spot to take photos — beneath the iconic entrance arch to Jurassic Park — which provided a title for the photo and clean visual framing. Our photos were further enhanced by some thematic props, costuming, and simple tips for posing from our game host.

Tips For Visiting

• Review our tips for playing escape rooms with actors.
• You’ll be traversing the jungle, so wear clothing that you don’t mind getting dirty, wet, and even muddy. If you’re continuing your adventures afterwards, I’d recommend bringing a change of clothing just in case.
• This game is available in English.

Book your hour with Golden Pop’s Jurasico, and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.