Thanks for the advice🙀!!
I've actually never touched player prefs, saving game data just scares me for some reason. I'll have to do it at some point though, better sooner than later.
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PlayerPrefs is absolutely easy. Just call PlayerPrefs.SetString(“key”, YourSaveData); PlayerPrefs.Save(); and then load by PlayerPrefs.GetString(“key”);. However, note that PlayerPrefs on Windows goes into Windows registry, so not a very good idea overall :) - it’s much better (but slightly harder) to make a custom save system with file saved in Application.persistentDataPath and file written/read by System.IO.File.WriteAllText/System.IO.File.ReadAllText. There’s of course some hassle to “serialize” the save state (and game settings) into a string - but this is a different topic :)