Thanks to the feedback from players, we made a large number of improvements to the game. More details on why in the community post in the main Cursed Companions store page.

Major updates:

New look for the Companions

Monsters don't spawn when portal opens, instead their spawn is delayed at random (meaning players can encounter them when they head back home)

Improved the user interface. More help and instructions to guide new players.

Players can host public game sessions

Random spawn points for portal (closer in to the castle in early stages) and for dark shrine

Added a new wing to the Island (for players to test magic spells and figure out the traps)

Added Push To Talk (other players can't hear you but curse words, monsters still trigger)

Increased inventory slot by 1

Added Monster Guidebook

Other improvements:

Moved the Recycler to the new wing of the Island

Added 8 new gestures: thumbs down, thumbs up, etc

Added new dance moves

Host can kick players in public games

Mists and fog now in mustard yellow, green, light blue

Added noise cancellation threshold slider

Added fireworks when the game is successfully completed

Reduced Death Curse damage to 10

Improved pick up distance for objects

Added some furniture players can move around

Increased door opening UI trigger distance

Added beacons which can be triggered with magic words, to guide your way to the main entrance and side entrance

Added spike traps and poison traps

Added ability to restart the game at the Game Over screen with the same players

Added a notification when the warning bell tolls (when there are 3 mins left till the Day ends)

Made more items available at the Shop at the start

Removed the intro video

Notification shown to the person who killed team mate with the cursed word

Showing ping value for debugging

Brightness bar reduced to 0.4 from 1.0

improvements made to animation and other cosmetic improvements

Changes made to the Mandrake's behaviour (smaller listening range, less easy to trigger)

Removed magic spell phrases too hard to trigger

Removed cursed words which were mistakenly triggered

Improve the activation circle for the traps (previously if two or more players are standing on the trap, it does not activate well)

Added a healing wand

Improvements to the magic words rotation syncing for Teleport Stone and Portal Clock

[*]More monsters spawn in the forest (as the portals are now closer to the castle)

As always, please keep the valuable feedback coming. We thank you for your support! :)