 In July 2014, the game won a poll conducted by Turtle Beach as the community's most "Beautiful Game"; games were nominated by fans posting videos, images or text, and a list was compiled by the community which also contained "", "Far Cry 3" and "The Last of Us".Justin Ma, one of the developers of "", commented on its use of text-based graphics, "Part of the reason "Dwarf Fortress" can include a breadth of mechanics unseen in other games is because complex mechanics are expressed in the most simple of visual forms.