Saving data on all devices

Question

I am still in the early stages of the game, and I am saving information using the KeyChain wrapper class created by someone. I wanted to ask for advice at an early stage, since I have time to change my approach.

My game has the potential to save enough information about the player and what they did, for example:

• how much gold does the player have
• what items they purchased (you can get about 50 items)
• what skills, spells and abilities did they choose for their character
• what level of experience they have, maximum health, statistics, etc.

The reason I decided to keep this in KeyChain was because they told me that it was encrypted and it was much harder to intervene. I felt that there were other solutions, such as the ones below, but I wrote some potential reasons why this might not be good:

• Do everything on a web server and store it in a database somewhere on my server . I want my game to be available offline.

• Use a local database (e.g. FMDB) . I could use the tool to directly edit the values ​​and provide more health, etc.

• Use master data . Never used it before, not sure if this is the same ease of substitution as # 3?
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