OFFICIAL STARTER GUIDE · beginner
Finish sign-in and resume account setup
Sign in once, complete eligibility, choose your public username, and wait for your saved game to open.
What are the setup steps?
Sign in, confirm eligibility, save your public username, then play. With Google, sign in first: one short screen then asks only for a username, with a suggestion filled in that you can change, and one 18+ and terms confirmation. Anything you already entered on the sign-up form, such as a username or the confirmations, is not asked again. A returning account with completed setup goes straight to its saved game.
Will a failed connection erase my choices?
The same tab keeps your selected country and time zone through sign-in and retries. An unfinished public username is saved for the identified account, so reloading that account can restore it. The server remains the authority for accepted eligibility, locked reset time zones and username availability. A pending acknowledgement or profile save is retried with its original request details.
Passwords, birth year and month, and unchecked or checked consent declarations are not stored as setup preferences. A changed legal policy can require you to confirm the current declarations again.
Google was cancelled or opened inside another app. What next?
If a Google sign-in does not finish, tap Tap to finish signing in on the same page. It starts a fresh Google sign-in there; an expired or already-used link is never reused. Google sign-in does not work inside a social app's own browser, so the page offers Open in your browser, or email sign-up instead. You do not need to create a second account.
My saved game is still loading
Keep the tab open while it loads. If loading fails, use Try again; if the game is open in another tab, close that tab first. The game does not replace your online progress with an empty local account when a connection fails.