The English name of this game is a translation, and the joke got a little lost on the way.

In Chinese the game is called 光标教 (Guāngbiāo Jiào). If you grew up reading wuxia novels, that should sound familiar: it's a play on 光明教, the "Cult of Light" from a classic wuxia story. Swap one character, 明 (bright) for 标 (mark), and the Cult of Light becomes the Cult of the Cursor, because 光标, "light-mark", is simply the everyday Chinese word for a mouse cursor. Every Chinese computer user moves a small mark of light around their screen all day without ever thinking about the word. I couldn't stop thinking about it.

Because if a tiny civilization actually lived on your screen, that mark of light is exactly what a god would look like. It comes from above, it moves in mysterious ways, it hovers, it vanishes. Of course they would build temples to it. Of course the priests would try to read meaning into where it has been.

That reading is the whole game. Cursor Cult is a desktop companion: a small pixel island docks at the edge of your screen, and two tribes live their lives on it while you get on with yours. You never have to give orders. Every 20 seconds the priests read the trail your cursor happened to leave as an omen. Circles mean farming. Long vertical strokes mean industry, long horizontal ones trade. Slow, gentle wandering means peace. Rest the cursor over the island and they pray. Shake it and they reach for their weapons. Your ordinary working habits become their scripture, and if you ever feel like it, you can also say something on purpose.

Two tribes share the island, and their history runs from the Stone Age to the Industrial Age. Wars happen, but they end, and no tribe is ever wiped out. It's a companion, not a conquest game: it's meant to live next to you, quietly, for a long time. And since the free update that added playing with a friend, a second god can arrive: your friend's cursor, on your island, leading the other tribe.

That's the game. A pun about a mark of light, taken completely seriously.

There's a free demo on Steam if you'd like a small civilization living at the edge of your screen.

— Bear Den Gaming Industries

这款游戏的英文名 Cursor Cult 是直译过去的，梗在翻译的路上丢了一半。

游戏的中文名叫《光标教》。看过武侠小说的人应该觉得眼熟：它化用了经典武侠故事里的"光明教"。把"明"换成"标"，光明教就成了光标教。"光标"本来就是鼠标指针的中文叫法，每个用电脑的人每天都在屏幕上挪动这一点"光"，只是从来没人多想。我想了，然后就停不下来了。

因为如果你的屏幕上真的住着一个小文明，那一点光恰恰就是神的样子：从天而降、行踪莫测、悬停、消失。他们当然会为它建神殿，祭司当然会试图解读它走过的痕迹。

而"解读"就是这款游戏的全部。《光标教》是一个桌面伴侣：一座像素小岛停靠在你的屏幕边缘，两个部落在上面过自己的日子，你过你的。你不需要下达任何命令。每 20 秒，祭司们会把你光标无意间留下的轨迹读成一道神谕：画圈是耕种，长长的竖线是工业，长长的横线是贸易，慢悠悠地闲逛是和平。把光标停在小岛上，他们会祈祷；把光标一通乱晃，他们会拿起武器。你日常用电脑的习惯，就是他们的经文；哪天你想了，也可以故意对他们"说"点什么。

两个部落共享一座小岛，历史从石器时代一路走到工业时代。战争会发生，但会结束，也没有任何部落会被灭绝。这是一个伴侣，不是一个征服游戏：它想长久地、安静地陪在你身边。自从免费更新加入了和好友一起玩，还可以有第二位神降临：你朋友的光标，出现在你的岛上，带领另一个部落。

这就是这款游戏：一个关于"一点光"的谐音梗，被完完整整地当真了。

Steam 上有免费试玩版，如果你想在屏幕边缘养一个小文明的话。

—— Bear Den Gaming Industries