Aniimo Account Linking: PSN, Xbox and Steam to One Aniimo Pass

Account linking is what makes one Aniimo save open on more than one device. Your progress belongs to an Aniimo Pass, the email account that sits underneath the storefronts, and a PSN, Microsoft or Steam account has to be attached to that Pass before it opens your existing save instead of a new one.

Yes, Aniimo has cross-progression and cross-save, with one condition: game progress is fully shared across all platforms within the same server, and data on different servers is independent. Our cross-progression and cross-save answer has the full platform list and the launch detail. This page is about the linking itself.

Two rules decide whether linking gives you your creatures back. First, on PlayStation and Xbox the link is a one-time action, offered in a pop-up the first time that console account launches the game: dismiss it and the console registers a new Aniimo Pass that can never be linked to your existing one. Second, progression is shared per server only, so a link made between two different servers still leaves you with two collections. Steam is the one platform with a second chance, through the in-game [Email Link] page.

How to link your Aniimo Pass

Linking attaches a platform account to the Aniimo Pass email account that owns your progress. On PlayStation and Xbox it happens once, at that console account’s first launch, and there is no console settings menu to fall back on afterwards, so the order below matters.

1. Create your Aniimo Pass first, on PC or mobile, if you can. That gives you an existing account with a known email address, which is the thing the console prompt asks for.
2. Check your server before you touch the console. Progression does not cross servers, so your existing character has to be on the same server the console account will land on. See the server section below.
3. Use a console account that has never been used to log into Aniimo. Linking requires a PSN or Microsoft account that has never signed into the game before.
4. Launch Aniimo on the console. The account-linking pop-up appears only on that first launch.
5. Enter the email of your existing Aniimo Pass in the prompt and complete the link.
6. Confirm before you play. Once you are in, check that your Aniilog, your squad and your Homeland are the ones you expect. If they are empty, you are on a new account and you should stop before investing hours into it.

The same flow applies on both consoles. PlayStation uses a PSN account, Xbox uses a Microsoft account, and either one can be linked to the same Aniimo Pass.

Steam is the exception: you can still link afterwards

On Steam the prompt appears after you log in through the Steam client, and it asks for an Aniimo Pass email account in the same way. If you skip it and go straight into the game, you can link later through the in-game [Email Link] page. That is the official route for anyone who played an earlier test on one account and has since been signing in with a different email.

The mistake you cannot undo

If you skip or dismiss the first-launch pop-up, Aniimo creates a new account and registers it to that console profile. You cannot link that console account to an existing Aniimo account afterwards. This is the one irreversible step in the whole setup.

It is an easy mistake to make, because the pop-up sits between you and the tutorial, and tapping past prompts on a console is muscle memory. The cost is not obvious for hours: the game plays normally, your new save fills up, and the problem only surfaces when you open Aniimo on your PC and find a different account waiting.

If it has already happened to you, there are two honest options, and neither is a fix:

• Keep playing that account on the console. It is a real Aniimo account with real progress. What it will not do is merge with your other one.
• Start again using a different console account. A second PSN or Microsoft account that has never signed into Aniimo can still be linked to your existing Aniimo account, because the one-time link is per console account rather than per console.

We are not going to promise that support can merge two accounts for you. No published guidance says it can, so plan as though it cannot.

Servers: progression does not cross them

Aniimo progression is strictly per server. There is no cross-server progression sharing, so an account linked correctly but sitting on the wrong server still leaves you with two separate collections.

On PlayStation the server is not a choice you make in a menu: it is assigned automatically from the registered region of the PSN account. That is the detail that catches people out. A PSN account registered in one region and an Aniimo character created on another region’s server will not meet, no matter how cleanly the link goes through.

So before you link, confirm two things: which server your existing character is on, and which server your PSN account’s registered region will put you on. If they do not match, linking will not give you your creatures back.

The same-server rule is not limited to your collection. It also decides whether pre-order items and trophy progress are shared, which is why both sections below repeat it.

What a linked Pass shares

Once the Pass is linked, the save itself is shared, inside one server. Progress belongs to the Aniimo Pass and not to the hardware: an eligible PlayStation Network (PSN) or Microsoft account linked to that Pass opens the same save the PC client opens.

What moves with the Pass, inside one server:

• Every captured Aniimo, with their levels, Potential grades and Resonance training.
• Aniilog completion, including forms and variants you have registered.
• Your Homeland, including incubation timers running in real time.
• Account level and story progress.
• Trophy and achievement progress.

What does not move: anything sitting on a different server. For the platform list, the mobile date and the official wording on cross-progression, see our cross-progression and cross-save answer.

Cross-play is a different thing

Cross-play is about who you can play with; linking is about where your own save opens. Aniimo has both, and they are governed by different things: cross-play by the friend system, cross-save by account linking and by your server.

Aniimo is cross-play across all launch platforms. A PlayStation player and a PC player can add each other and play together, and friend lists are shared across platforms through the same account identity.

If your goal is simply to squad up with a friend on another console, you do not need to link anything. If your goal is to carry your own creatures between your PC and your PS5, linking is the whole job.

Pre-order rewards across platforms

Pre-order items follow the storefront you bought them on, and then follow your account. The claim sequence is:

1. Download and launch the game on the platform where the pre-order was bought.
2. Claim the items from the in-game mailbox.
3. Activate them.

After that, the accessories and items are usable on your other platforms, within the same server.

If you bought the pre-order bundle on both PlayStation and Xbox, you can claim both sets of rewards: link both console accounts to the same Aniimo account, and keep everything on the same server. That is how the platform-exclusive accessories end up side by side, with the Fluffy Friend accessory from PlayStation pre-orders and the Doggo Dude accessory from Xbox pre-orders on one character.

Note the ordering constraint this creates. Each console account can be linked once, so the pre-order you bought and the console account you link have to be the same one. Our Pre-Order Q&A covers what is in each pack and whether either is worth buying.

Trophies and achievements

Trophy and achievement progress is shared across platforms once your accounts are linked, within the same server. Play on PC, and the milestones you hit there count towards your PlayStation trophies and your Xbox achievements on the linked accounts.

This is unusual enough to be worth stating plainly: in many cross-platform games, platform awards are tracked by the platform and nothing you do elsewhere counts. In Aniimo, the linked account is what the progress hangs on.

What is still not published

Two questions come up constantly and neither has an official answer yet. We are not going to guess at them.

• Premium currency pooling. Whether currency bought through the PlayStation Store, the Microsoft Store, Steam, the App Store or Google Play pools into one balance across storefronts is not published. Wallet rules differ by storefront, so until it is stated, buying from a single platform is the cautious approach.
• Unlinking. Whether a linked platform can be detached later, and under what conditions, is not published. What is confirmed is the linking side: the link is one-time per console account, offered only at first launch.

We will update this page when either is answered, with the source named.

Setup checklist by scenario

Three common situations, in the order the steps have to happen.

You will play on PC or mobile first, console second

1. Create your Aniimo account on PC or mobile and note the email address on it.
2. Note your server, and check it against the region your PSN account is registered in.
3. On the console, launch the game with a PSN or Microsoft account that has never signed into Aniimo.
4. Enter your Aniimo account email in the first-launch pop-up.
5. Check that your Aniilog and Homeland are there before you carry on.

You will play on console first

1. Launch on the console and let it create your Aniimo account through your PSN or Microsoft account.
2. Note which server you were assigned.
3. On PC, sign into that same Aniimo account rather than creating a second one.
4. If you later add the other console, link it at its own first launch, on the same server.

You are waiting for mobile on 23 September

1. Play on PC or console from 16 September on the account you intend to keep.
2. When the mobile app arrives, sign into that same Aniimo account instead of starting fresh.
3. Stay on the same server: mobile is another way into the account, not another account.

Everything else about launch day is covered elsewhere on the site. The Pre-Order Q&A handles the packs and the claim order, the release date and platforms guide has the times and storefronts, and the beginner guide walks the opening hours once you are in.