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Until now, Cursor Cult was your island alone. Now you can invite a Steam friend onto it: two gods, one island, a tribe each.

Getting started
Right-click the cursor-arrow icon by the clock → "Play with a friend…" and pick a friend in the Steam window. If none opens: in your Steam friends list, right-click a friend and invite them to the game.
When they accept, they arrive on your island. You keep leading the tribe you've always led; your friend leads the other one.
While your friend visits, their own world is kept safe, untouched. When you part, they go back to their own island.
You both need the full game, on the same version. If the versions differ, the game will tell you both to update. The demo doesn't include playing together.
Your friend's hand
Your friend's cursor appears on your island as a see-through hand in their tribe's colour, with their name under it. Yours appears on theirs the same way.
Middle-click the island for a ring of twelve pixel gestures: hello, love, haha, nice, whoa, boo-hoo, so bored, grumble, grr, nyah nyah, peace?, and "look here". The gesture pops up over your hand, for both of you.
Double-click the island to plant a bouncing arrow there and point something out.
Swipe one hand quickly past the other: high five! A burst of stars.
Rest your hands together for a moment: you're holding hands. Hearts rise, and if you move together, you leave a braid in both colours behind you.
Two gods, one island
With a friend, your whole screen speaks to your own tribe only, and theirs to theirs. Each of you has your own mouse habits, read as your own omens.
Their god isn't yours. If your friend's hand rests over your villagers, they won't kneel; they'll run. And if your friend shakes their mouse over your village... yes, the lightning is real.
Villagers of the two tribes now visit each other: they walk over to the other village, find someone to talk to and make friends. Friends who meet again sometimes fall in love and wed halfway between the villages, with people from both turning up to watch. Their child is born in the smaller village, and the tribes warm to each other.
If you're both watching over someone in your tribes (the god's eye), those two will meet. After a few meetings, they may end up together.
The tribe panels say which tribe is yours and which is your friend's, each in its colour, and your village is pointed out when you meet.
House rules
Only the host can pause, change the speed or start a new world.
While you're both on the island, neither of you can change the island's layout or switch "Your tribe".
Visiting someone else's world doesn't unlock achievements.
Either of you can stop playing together at any time. If the connection goes quiet for about 15 seconds, the game will tell you you've lost touch.
Also in this update
The land of the tribe you lead is now lit a little, and the other tribe's a little dimmer, fading into each other halfway between the villages. This works alone too, when you lead one tribe.
Menu → Panels is now two choices: when they show (Always shown / Shown while the cursor is on the island / Hidden) and where they sit (On the island / Beside the island). Your old setting carries over.