Poolrooms Red Key Missing or Location Guide

Quick answer

If the Poolrooms red key seems missing, do not assume the run is solved or bugged immediately. Recheck side rooms, corners, shelves, ledges, room exits and any area that opened after a lever. If the same route has been swept twice and no new path appears, treat it as a possible softlock and restart with notes.

Red key recovery checklist

1. Confirm you are in Poolrooms, not the Manor route.
2. Note every colored key already found.
3. Return to each padlock and check whether another color opens it first.
4. Revisit rooms that changed after a lever.
5. Search low and near doorway edges before leaving a room.
6. If you died, confirm whether the key reset, stayed collected or moved.
7. If no progress changes after a full sweep, restart and record the room order.

What to record

Possible causes

• The red key is in a side room that looks optional.
• A lever opens a new search area after the first sweep.
• Another key color must be used before the red route becomes visible.
• The item reset after a death or revive.
• The run may have entered a softlock after an update bug.

What this page does not claim yet

This page does not publish a guaranteed red key coordinate. That needs repeatable gameplay proof. Its job is to capture the search intent now and give players a better troubleshooting path than "unknown".

Next verification target

The next gameplay capture should focus only on Poolrooms: record the first room, every key pickup, every padlock, every lever, the red key state, death/revive behavior and exit trigger.