Keep the Door Locked Guides

Start with the room, not the door

Keep the Door Locked is a free Roblox single-player hotel-room experience by Hotel Room Services. It is not LSPLASH’s DOORS, and it does not play like a shared exploration run: you are alone after midnight, strangers knock, and the room’s cameras and rules are your main evidence. The safest first read is How to Play, which explains the night loop and why a fast answer at the door is usually worse than a deliberate one.

The room is small, but the decision space is not. A visitor may be harmless, urgent, deceptive, or an outright threat. Use the camera and the details it shows before you commit. Our Camera and Door Decisions guide turns that habit into a repeatable check: pause, inspect, compare what you see with what you were told, then choose. The companion Rules Explained page is useful when a situation feels unfair; badge evidence gives strong clues about which anomalies have special escalation states.

The survival route

For a normal survival attempt, learn the controls first. Controls covers the practical interactions that matter in a tense room: looking at the camera, using the door, moving between points of interest, and handling an item when the game gives you one. Do a calm practice pass before treating a run as your ten-day attempt. The known survival ending is tied to living through 10 days, so consistency matters more than discovering every secret immediately.

Sanity is another resource to protect. The Losing It badge confirms that sanity can reach zero, but it does not fully document every number or hidden trigger. Sanity Guide focuses on observable warning signs and conservative play rather than claiming an exact formula. When the room begins to feel strange, reduce unnecessary risk, finish the immediate response, and return to your routine.

Several threats deserve their own pages because they punish a single wrong reaction. Read Survive the Door Breaker before you meet the force behind the Door Held badge. Read Banish the Shadow Figure for the shadow linked to Not Today. These are deliberately separated from the general rules so you can revisit them without searching through a full walkthrough during a run.

Anomalies, secrets, and endings

The hotel also rewards curiosity, but curiosity must be controlled. Badge names indicate a staged window anomaly (Three Strikes, checked at stage 3), a toilet anomaly pushed near its final state (Flush of Fear), and a room hider connected to Caught You Looking. Treat those as evidence that escalation matters. Do not assume that every anomaly should be interrupted at the first hint, and do not assume that every oddity is safe to watch indefinitely.

There are at least three badge-supported end goals. Golden Skeleton Ending is the guide for the route associated with finding a golden skeleton. Grandma Key Ending covers the stranger-grandma choice; the evidence is clear that accepting her strange key matters, while exact prerequisites may still be community-discovered. Dream Room explains how to approach that unusual state without presenting guesses as confirmed mechanics.

Other badges point to optional side stories. Rat Buster names a pizza rat and a baseball bat; Kindness suggests that helping someone can matter later; Juan and What the Dog Doin’ are Easter-egg leads; Blood Money confirms a very high money milestone. Use them as exploration prompts after you have a stable survival routine, not as reasons to throw away a good run.

A useful reading order

New players should go from How to Play to Survive 10 Days, then All Endings, Camera and Door Decisions, and Rules Explained. After that, use Controls and Sanity Guide to reinforce the practical routine before choosing a focused goal. This order builds the observation habit that every later guide assumes.

New survival routes

For a full Ending 1 plan, follow Survive 10 Days and keep optional risks out of the long run. Compare the three badge-supported routes in All Endings before treating a rare discovery as a requirement. Once your basics are stable, Hidden Badges separates concrete clues from ultra-rare Easter-egg uncertainty, while Blood Money Guide covers the uncompleted one-million milestone without fake farming claims.

These pages intentionally do not list promo codes, Discord links, or video IDs. There are no verified promotional codes to recommend, and an unverified code is worse than no advice in a game where information is already part of the challenge. If a mechanic is supported only by a badge name, the guide labels it as badge evidence and gives a safe practical approach instead of inventing a certainty.