It has been covered by publications like The Wall Street Journal.[1] The game was picked in a survey involving over 400,000 voters over 5000 other web applications as one of the top 100 best web applications, one of ten in the entertainment category for 2007 by Webware.[2][20] In 2008, the game won a "Gleemie Award" and the developers received $5000 in prize money at the 2008 Independent Games Festival.[21] In 2012, Desktop Tower Defense was listed on Time's All-Time 100 greatest video games list.[22]