# Accounts, guests and saving progress

_How guest play, sign-in and account deletion work, and what happens to your aquarium in each._

## Playing without an account

Anyone can open Fishies and start playing as a guest at once, with no account needed. See [Signing in & saving progress](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/signin) for what a guest aquarium can and cannot do, and how to save it before it is lost.

## Linking a sign-in

Once you decide to keep your aquarium, you link one of these to it from the account centre:

- Google
- X
- Apple
- Discord
- Steam (sign-in only works once an aquarium is already linked to it)
- a phone number

## The account centre

The account centre holds your username and aquarium name, the sign-ins you have linked, your language, and the ways Fishies can reach you outside the game: reminders in Telegram, and an Email updates switch for big news that you opt in to. For reminders see [Reminders](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/notifications).

## What is stored, and where

Your aquarium, its fish, coins, level and decorations, lives on Fishies' own servers, on the same clock for every player. A sign-in only proves which aquarium is yours; it never creates a separate Fishies password.

## Deleting your account

The account centre's Delete account option removes your sign-in and its linked data for good. There is no way to undo it, so save anything you want to keep, a screenshot of your aquarium, for instance, before you do.

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