---
title: "xkcd"
subtitle: "A window onto Randall Munroe's long-running webcomic, right on your Desktop."
date: 2026-05-21T02:28:00.000Z
url: https://phaser.io/tutorials/desktop/xkcd
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

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# xkcd

*A window onto Randall Munroe's long-running webcomic, right on your Desktop.*

A window onto Randall Munroe's long-running webcomic, right on your Desktop. Read the latest strip, browse a few previous ones, and find the alt-text joke nobody ever quite stops loving.

If you don't know xkcd yet — you're about to fall into a very fun rabbit hole. If you do — well, here it is.

## Features

- **Latest strip on launch.** Open the window, see today's comic.
- **Browse recent strips.** Step back through the last few without leaving the Desktop.
- **Alt-text on hover.** The good part. Always read the alt-text.
- **Tiny, lightweight window.** Doesn't take up much screen.

## What you walk away with

- A small smile. Possibly a chuckle. Occasionally an actual insight into the nature of reality, density of black holes, or the proper way to render a sandwich.

It's here because if your day is going badly, sometimes the right move is to look at a comic for thirty seconds and reset. We're game developers; we've all needed that.

Thanks, Randall.

---

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