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Games like The Haunting of Joni Evers

If The Haunting of Joni Evers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ghost on the Shore, What Remains of Edith Finch and Luto — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and eerie. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About The Haunting of Joni Evers: The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.

2025IndieAdventure8.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindows · macOSby Causeway Studios
The Haunting of Joni Evers — Steam game cover
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Atmospheric exploration of a beautifully designed family homeExcellent voice acting carries the emotional storyHouse design feels like a living characterAtmosphericDarkEerie

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Steam players who put hours into The Haunting of Joni Evers also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Ghost on the Shore

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Top pick for The Haunting of Joni Evers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.

    2022Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. What Remains of Edith Finch

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Second-strongest match for The Haunting of Joni Evers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Luto

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Third-strongest match for The Haunting of Joni Evers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Home is Where One Starts...

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Ranked #4 for The Haunting of Joni Evers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.

    2015IndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. The Berlin Apartment

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory based puzzles, environmental storytelling and atmospheric with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Ranked #5 for The Haunting of Joni Evers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.

    2025IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. As Long As You're Here

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling, exploration and atmospheric with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Ranked #6 for The Haunting of Joni Evers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.

    2025IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Mutazione

    WHY THIS

    Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Ranked #7 for The Haunting of Joni Evers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    A mutant soap opera where small-town gossip meets the supernatural. Explore the Mutazione community as Kai as she cares for her ailing grandfather. Discover magical gardens, new friends & old secrets. They can survive an apocalyptic meteor strike, but can they survive their small-town drama?

    2019IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Last Show of Mr. Chardish

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Ranked #8 for The Haunting of Joni Evers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Decades have passed and the Actress, Ella, returns to the abandoned theatre to uncover a preserved collection of extraordinary performances. Explore a variety of magical, hand-painted worlds as you collect the lost pieces of the past.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure2.49 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to The Haunting of Joni Evers

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. What Remains of Edith Finch

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Reviewers of The Haunting of Joni Evers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Gone Home

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Reviewers of The Haunting of Joni Evers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.

    2013IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Firewatch

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Reviewers of The Haunting of Joni Evers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

    2016IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Haunting of Joni Evers at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under The Haunting of Joni Evers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under The Haunting of Joni Evers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under The Haunting of Joni Evers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under The Haunting of Joni Evers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~89% under The Haunting of Joni Evers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Haunting of Joni Evers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under The Haunting of Joni Evers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under The Haunting of Joni Evers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Ghost on the Shore

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.

    2022Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. What Remains of Edith Finch

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Berlin Apartment

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory based puzzles, environmental storytelling and atmospheric with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.

    2025IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. As Long As You're Here

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling, exploration and atmospheric with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.

    2025IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Mutazione

    WHY THIS

    Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Haunting of Joni Evers.

    A mutant soap opera where small-town gossip meets the supernatural. Explore the Mutazione community as Kai as she cares for her ailing grandfather. Discover magical gardens, new friends & old secrets. They can survive an apocalyptic meteor strike, but can they survive their small-town drama?

    2019IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Haunting of Joni Evers

Is The Haunting of Joni Evers verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — The Haunting of Joni Evers is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does The Haunting of Joni Evers cost?
The Haunting of Joni Evers is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Haunting of Joni Evers?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Haunting of Joni Evers are Ghost on the Shore, What Remains of Edith Finch, Luto.
Who developed The Haunting of Joni Evers?
The Haunting of Joni Evers was developed by Causeway Studios.

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