How to Create Garena Account without a Phone Number?

If you are a fan of mobile games, registering a Garena account is a must for you. Though, the app will ask you for some personal information that you are not ready to share. Such as a personal mobile number.

In this reading, let’s analyze how you can bypass Garena’s registration requirements without compromising your personal mobile number. But first let’s find an answer to what features the app offers to the customers.

What is Garena? Briefly on the App’s Development

Garena is a well-known Singapore-based online game developer and publisher founded in 2006. The list of games developed by Garena includes a number of high-profile projects such as League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth, FIFA Online, third-person shooter Free Fire and many more.

But when speaking of Garena, people typically mean Garena+ which is the company’s main product. It is an entertainment platform that gamers use to connect with each other and have an even more thrilling gaming experience together — please discover more details about Garena+ in the next text section.

What is Garena’s predecessor? The first venture of Forrest Li, Garena’s founder who that time just graduated from Stanford, was an investor project GG Game. Li managed to find investors within his broad network of the university’s ex-classmates, but soon it became clear that the venture had not worked out. However, it never stopped Li from trying again and again as he took courage. When he received $1 million investors’ capital, he decided to launch his second venture. And this happened to be Garena. 

First, the startup only focused on publishing games and letting development wait this time. But when Li successfully received a license from Riot Games as a result of an exciting yet exhausting negotiations and a little bit later the Chinese Tencent acquired a significant part of the company’s shares, Li also successfully turned back to his plans for game development.

In addition to almost any popular online and PC game in the world, the Garena account holders can get access to Garena’s proprietary games. Thanks to it, the company has already covered over 130 countries. Moreover, it also curates and localizes games to other languages.

What is Garena+ Used for?

The Garena+ platform started as an esports community. So, it was one of the first playgrounds to organize and host esports tournaments, now being a leading playground for DotA and Age of Empires. First, it covered Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and the CIS but later also expanded to Thailand and Indonesia.

To date, the platform has attracted over 1 million active daily users. Besides, the platform has exclusive rights to publish games from its global partners.

As for users, Garena+ lets the gaming international communities to engage and interact with each other by chatting and playing games. Its interface is quite similar to any popular messenger’s interface. The idea of the platform is to easen the way of discovering games and other gamers to play together.

Moreover, with a Garena account, one can:

• Check gameplay.
• View achievements of other gamers — with a specified buddy list.
• Join clans and groups of similar interest in games.
• Voice chat with many gamers simultaneously in private or public channels.

With the platform’s virtual currency Shells, gamers can customize their inventory and clothing to improve characteristics and rating of their heroes.

How to Register a Garena Account?

When you see the login area displayed on the screen, to sign up for a new account, click on the ‘Register a New Account’ button at the bottom. Go ahead and type in your username in the first text box that you want to set up for your Garena account.

After that, head over to the next field and type in a password that is easy to remember and difficult for others to guess. Once you create a password that matches a criteria that Garena sets — from 8 to 16 symbols with one upper case letter, head over to the next field and re-enter your password.

After that, fill out the next text field with your email address. To verify your email address, first, you will need to enter a verification Garena code. Click on the Get Code button and open up your email inbox. In the verification code field, paste in the code. On the next field, select your country code and enter your mobile number.

To right next to the verification code field, click on another ‘Get Code’ button and type in the code that you just received.

After that, choose your country from the dropdown beneath. Finally, click on ‘Register Now’.

How to Get a Garena Code without a Phone Number?

If your purpose is to create an account on Garena, consider leveraging a one-time use virtual phone number rather than compromising your real mobile number. Compared to submitting your actual phone number for Garena that might be insecure due to possible data leaks, virtual numbers has a number of advantages:

• They are also able to receive SMS messages but with no need to use a SIM card for it. SMS comes right to your private account on the cloud platform that virtual number is connected with.
• Numbers are not attached to any physical address and devices — all you need to get an SMS is a stable Internet connection. It significantly improves your privacy on the web.
• The SMS-Man helps users get verification codes without a phone number such as a Garena code for over 4000+ global and local services and apps.
• You can get the phone number of any country. There are more than 170 different codes to choose from.
• It works for registering a bulk of accounts with unique numbers required.
• Moreover, it is perfect for getting access to a platform that is blocked in your area.
• And finally, it is highly affordable with a starting price from $0.16, depending on the service required.

Here is how you can get a one-time use phone number for Garena through SMS-Man:

1. Register on sms-man.com using email address or through social media.
2. Add funds to your account balance via a bank transfer, Alipay, Payeer or other payment method.
3. To purchase a disposable number, open ‘Receive SMS’. Choose the service and then choose a required country code (to receive an OTP, Singaporean one is perfect). Click ‘Buy’.
4. After that, copy the virtual number from ‘History’ at the bottom and submit it to the app.
5. To get a confirmation code for Garena, return to SMS-man and request it by clicking ‘Get a Code’.
6. Leverage the code to complete the Garena registration.