A calm blank canvas that listens to your hand, slow for bold and dark, quick for thin and light.
Paint expressive strokes with a brush that reacts to your speed and pen pressure. Drag slowly for thick, dark marks and quickly for thin, pale ones. Smudge to smear colours together, mirror your strokes with symmetry, and a harmony strip keeps your palette pleasant.
Daub is an original game, and its name is an old English word for laying material on thickly by hand — the same daub as wattle and daub, the building technique of mud pressed into a woven frame.
The lineage is simply painting, and specifically the part of painting a mouse usually cannot reproduce: a brush that answers to how fast and how hard it is moved, so that speed thins a stroke and slowness deepens it.
Everything else follows from getting that right. Smudging, mixing and layering only matter if the mark has weight to begin with, which is why the game is built around the feel of a single stroke rather than around tools, layers or anything to finish.
Daub is an original relaxing painting toy in the calm creative-sandbox genre, a free, canvas-only browser game with no score and no fail.