70% Complete is an independent publication exploring power, philosophy, and play through games. Whether it's on your tabletop or your desktop, we believe that games can be used as gateways to understanding the world around us.
We are supported entirely by our generous readers and viewers via Patreon. If you'd like to support future collections, essays, videos, and podcasts, consider becoming a patron.
We create video essays, criticism, podcasts, and thematic collections focused on power structures, philosophical concepts, and the ways gameplay interacts with these themes. Because we are 100% reader-supported, we only cover the games and topics we feel strongly about; we have no desire to chase the latest trends or boost pageviews.
We believe every game lives within a context worth discussing.
Every article, video, and podcast is 100% human-made and free of AI.
Who we are
Phil Bothun is a writer and designer. He wrote a 70-page thesis about Bioshock in 2013 and is still chasing that high. When he is not writing about video games, he's admiring furniture, looking at unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright structures, and redesigning this website. The search for the perfect typeface truly never ends.
Logan is a podcaster and reformed theater tech. He is deeply interested in philosophy as a means of understanding our daily lives, reading patch notes too closely, and the current price of sharks in Old School Runescape.
Support us
If you want our work to continue, consider supporting us on Patreon! Patrons at any paid tier gain access to:
- Zero to Seventy, a behind-the-scenes podcast recorded during the production of collections and video essays
- 48 hour early access to all video essays
- Script PDFs, storyboard sketches, and behind-the-scene videos digging into production and shot composition.
- 70% Complete Podcast Extended Cut; it's the same podcast, now featuring even more nonsense.
Colophon
70% Complete is hosted by Ghost Pro and uses a modified version of the Liebling theme by Eduardo Gómez. 7o% Complete's domain and emails are registered with Hover. The 70% Complete logo and graphic treatments are designed by Phil Bothun.
Our heading typeface is Basalte, which is part of Degheest by Ange Degheest, Camille Depalle, Eugénie Bidaut, Luna Delabre, Mandy Elbé, May Jolivet, Oriane Charvieux, Benjamin Gomez, Justine Herbel. Distributed by velvetyne.fr. Our body text is Avara by Raphaël Bastide, with the contribution of Wei Huang, Lucas Le Bihan, Walid Bouchouchi, Jérémy Landes. Also distributed by velvetyne.fr.