Your first goal in Keep the Door Locked is to make one informed door decision without losing track of the room. The official description gives the essential loop: strangers knock, some lie, cameras provide evidence, rules matter, and you decide who gets inside. Treat the locked door as your default state while you collect information. Opening it is the conclusion of the check, not the first step.
Join through the official Roblox experience and verify that Hotel Room Services is the creator. The correct Place ID is 124338404742585. This matters because an unrelated experience or inherited guide can teach controls and systems that do not exist here.
Quick start: hear the request, leave the door locked, read the active rule, inspect the available camera views, compare the evidence with the visitor’s claim, check the room for an anomaly, and then make the door decision.
Before the first knock
Use the quiet opening of the session to identify the controls the current build actually shows. Locate the door interaction, camera access, rule display, and any visible room-state indicator such as Sanity. Do not assume a button position from a desktop or mobile video; interface placement can change and touch layouts can differ.
Read the rules before pressure starts. A rule is useful only when you remember its exact condition. Reduce it to a short test in your own words: what observation activates it, and what response does it require? Avoid adding conditions that the screen does not state.
Return the camera to a known starting view. If there are multiple feeds, learn how to change them and how to exit cleanly. A fast camera sweep is only helpful when you can return to the door without becoming disoriented.
Finally, look around the room. Official badges prove that a room hider, window anomaly, door breaker, shadow figure, and toilet anomaly are part of the current badge vocabulary. Their exact triggers are not documented officially, but their existence means the visitor is not the only thing worth checking.
Use one repeatable decision sequence
When somebody knocks, listen or read the complete claim before acting. Identify what the visitor wants and any detail that could be tested. A request can sound urgent while still containing a contradiction; emotional delivery is not evidence.
Next, consult the current rule. Rules can be more reliable than memory because they belong to the live session. If an older walkthrough and the current instruction differ, follow the current instruction. Do not turn one successful choice in a video into a permanent visitor answer.
Then inspect the cameras. Look for evidence that directly relates to the claim and for signs that the situation outside does not match what you were told. An empty or unclear view is not automatic proof either way. Record it mentally as “not confirmed” instead of “safe.”
Before committing, scan the room and door state. A named anomaly may require attention at the same time, and responding to the wrong problem can end a run even if the visitor judgment was sensible. Only after those checks should you accept or refuse entry using the control shown by the current build.
Read evidence without overconfident shortcuts
Keep three categories: confirmed, contradicted, and unknown. A confirmed detail visibly agrees with the claim. A contradicted detail visibly conflicts. Unknown means the available camera or rule does not settle it. This prevents the common mistake of treating missing evidence as proof.
Separate appearance from behavior. The official premise says some strangers lie; it does not define a complete visual “bad visitor” type. A frightening character could still be part of a legitimate event, and a calm character could still provide an inconsistent story. Let the current evidence carry the decision.
Use the rule as written. If it names a condition, verify that condition before applying the response. If it does not address the situation, do not invent an extension. A simple evidence log—claim, camera observation, rule, response, outcome—will reveal more than memorizing faces after one run.
Keep the room in your scan
The official anomaly badges contain narrow outcome clues. Caught You Looking is awarded for spotting the room hider. Door Held is for surviving the door breaker. Not Today names banishing the shadow figure. Three Strikes involves checking the window while its anomaly is at stage 3, and Flush of Fear involves pushing the toilet anomaly to its second-to-last stage.
Those descriptions establish names and outcomes, not a complete response guide. For a beginner, the practical lesson is to include the relevant room areas in a consistent scan and notice when a state changes. Do not claim that checking, staring, closing, flushing, or holding is always correct unless the current game or a reproducible demonstration supports that action.
The Anomalies hub keeps the official wording beside each unknown field so you can avoid mixing badge facts with community assumptions.
Understand Sanity without guessing its formula
Roblox’s Losing It badge confirms that Sanity can reach zero. It does not state what lowers it, how to recover it, whether values persist across days, or what the exact consequence is. If the current interface shows Sanity, include it in your after-event check and note when it changes.
Do not assign cause from one observation. A decrease after a knock could relate to the visitor decision, a room anomaly, elapsed time, or another event. Repeat the same condition before turning the association into advice. This is why Sanity is covered here rather than padded into a standalone page with invented recovery steps.
Prepare for the ten-day objective
The official Ending 1 badge defines the standard objective as getting through ten days. It does not promise that every day uses a fixed encounter list. Build consistency around the inspection process: begin each event from a known view, read the current rule, use cameras, scan the room, commit once, and review the result.
Between decisions, reset. Confirm the door state, return the camera to your chosen baseline, note any rule change, and check the visible room-state indicators. This reduces errors caused by carrying an old assumption into a new event.
If you fail, identify the category before restarting. Was the visitor claim misread? Was a camera clue missed? Was the rule applied incorrectly? Was the room anomaly ignored? A precise failure category gives the next run one useful correction.
For a complete-run structure and current walkthrough video, continue to the Day 1–10 walkthrough.
Mobile and multiplayer cautions
A current community video demonstrates a Day 1–10 mobile run, so the objective is visibly playable on mobile. The video does not establish permanent touch-control positions. Give yourself extra time to switch camera views, close panels, and confirm that one tap registered before making the final door choice.
The official experience allows multiple players at the universe level, but the description frames the story as being alone in a hotel room. Public official material does not explain how a party changes responsibility, voting, random events, or ending credit. Do not assume a solo route transfers exactly to a group session.
First-run mistakes to avoid
- Opening because the visitor sounds urgent before checking the cameras and rule.
- Treating an unclear camera view as confirmation.
- Watching only the door while a room anomaly develops.
- Following an old video’s choice after the live rule changes.
- Guessing Sanity recovery methods or thresholds from one attempt.
- Attempting a secret ending before understanding the normal decision loop.
- Joining a similarly named experience or following a guide about unrelated units, codes, or currencies.
Beginner FAQ
What is the main objective?
The standard official badge objective is to get through ten days. Other official badges define two additional endings and several anomaly or secret goals.
Should I ever open immediately?
The official loop emphasizes cameras and rules before the decision. Keep the door locked while gathering the information the current event makes available.
Is there a fixed list of safe visitors?
No complete official list was found. Use current rules and observable evidence rather than an unsupported permanent whitelist.
What happens at zero Sanity?
The official badge confirms that zero is reachable but does not document the precise consequence. That outcome still needs a dated in-game test.
10232686472, TheKacperosEN’s full walkthrough, and Retro NOBY’s mobile Day 1–10 walkthrough. Community videos demonstrate a route; unsupported fixed sequences and control positions are deliberately omitted.