Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-44304359-20191102145244/@comment-31567784-20191102202141

On ANdroid you have the choice to connect to your Google account and sync your actual game to the cloud.

If you have to load Google Play first it will not change a thing. I can't remember what came first as I sync to Goog since "ages". Try connecting to your Google account from the game and you will see what you need. After the connection is established you should do a manual cloud save from the Game and all should be fine.

If you have a second device at hand you can test your cloud save to be accurate without any hassle. ;-)