It has been covered by publications like "The Wall Street Journal". 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. In 2008, the game won a "Gleemie Award" and the developers received $5000 in prize money at the 2008 Independent Games Festival. In 2012, "Desktop Tower Defense" was listed on Time's All-TIME 100 greatest video games list.