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About This Demo

Your cursor is their god

This free demo is the Stone Age of Cursor Cult, a desktop companion. A tiny pixel-art island docks along the edge of your screen, and two tribes live on it, one at each end. They worship the Sky Hand: your mouse cursor. Every 20 seconds their priests read the trail your cursor left behind as an omen, and steer the tribe by it.

You never have to play it. Just use your computer, and your everyday mouse habits become the tribe's scripture. When you feel like it, gesture on purpose: draw circles, shake the cursor, or rest it over the island.

Read the omens

• The Great Wheel (circles): farming, more fields and farmers
  
• The Pillar of Heaven (long vertical strokes): industry, lumber camps and quarries
  
• The Long Road (long horizontal strokes): trade, markets and merchants
  
• The Storm of Wrath (frantic shaking): arms; relations sour, and war may follow
  
• The Gentle Breeze (slow, gentle wandering): peace
  
• The Gaze of the Sky (resting over the island): faith, temples and priests
  
• The Dance of Stars (moving along the far edge of the screen): learning, libraries and scholars
  
• The Silence (not moving): nothing changes, and long silences make the people uneasy

An omen guide in your tribe's panel tracks which of the eight you have found.

What's in the demo

• The whole Stone Age: huts, fields, lumber camps, quarries, markets, temples, libraries, fishing boats and war canoes.
  
• Lead one tribe, the other, or both. Each tribe hears only its own half of the screen.
  
• Relations drift with your omens, and wars of clubs and headbands break out and end in peace.
  
• Hover still over villagers and they kneel in awe. Shake the cursor over a village to call down lightning.
  
• The demo ends when your tribe is ready for the Bronze Age. The full game carries on through Bronze, Iron, Kingdoms and the Industrial Age, with ships, aircraft and buildings that change with every age.

Made to sit on your desktop all day

• Transparent and always on top. Clicks pass through everywhere except the island itself.
  
• Dock it to the bottom, top, left or right edge. Pick its size, or hide the panels.
  
• Quiet, restrained sound. Turn it off at any time.
  
• English and Simplified Chinese.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

The sound effects were generated with AI, then trimmed and mixed for the game. AI tools also helped write the game's code.