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The Haunting of Joni Evers

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.

Released Jan 13, 2025 Developer Causeway Studios Platforms Windows · Mac Story RichIndieAtmosphericWalking SimulatorExploration
View on Steam ↗ $8.99 (US · as of 2026-05-19)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

90.2%positive173 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“3/5 - Average It's pretty good for a casual walking simulator. But there is barely any gameplay at all beyond finding the next clickable object, listening to the main character and proceeding to the next scene. However, the story is endearing and the voice acting is good. Just…”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Great to have something short that's worth playing, something great to pickup if you liked Gone Home”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Not recommended · 2 found this helpful

“Game just crashed five times in a row, near the end, without any option to save my progress manually -- while failing to autosave after I collected three key items repeatedly. They need to fix all these repeating bugs.”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

17achievements
38.4%median completion
0.5%rarest: Co-op Coven
87.1% of players 82.0% of players 62.0% of players 57.3% of players 49.3% of players 48.1% of players 48.0% of players 43.2% of players 38.4% of players 30.3% of players 25.9% of players 20.8% of players 13.3% of players 12.6% of players 7.9% of players 5.3% of players 0.5% of players 87.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
87.1%Tomorrow Will Be Better — Fall asleep in a haunted house
82.0%I HATE Her — Shatter a Relic
62.0%Got Answers — Learn what's going on in the basement
Rarest badges of honor
0.5%Co-op Coven — Listen to all of the tape recordings left behind by Sara
5.3%Beings From Beyond — Chapter 13 — Find every reference to the Skull Man
7.9%Don't Trust the Weatherman — Skip turning on the TV to check the weather

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Sep 20, 2026
Hotfix v1.1.3 - Fixing "No Translation Found" for Spanish players

- Fixed an issue where players with their operating system or Steam language set to Spanish would encounter "No Translation Found" for almost all text in game

Sep 16, 2026
Hotfix v1.1.2 - Fixing tracking for the "Co-op Coven" achievement

- Fixed an issue in which the tracking for the Library tape was not correctly contributing to the achievement tracking.

Sep 14, 2026
Update v1.1.1 - Patch Notes: Fixing Steam Deck Freezes & Crashes

Update v1.1.1 - Sep 14, 2026 - Fixed an issue causing freezes and crashes at key moments in the game (chapter transitions and final confrontation) on Steam Deck - Fixed an issue causing a black screen

Sep 01, 2026
Hotfix - Lilith Update.1

- Fixed an issue causing a memory leak, framerate lock, and crash in chapter 11 on Windows

Sep 01, 2026
The Lilith Update

Today's update adds a number of new items, visuals, notes, and recordings throughout the Cunningham House. These items give more background to various family members as well as teasers for our newly-a

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAdventure, Indie
Player tagsStory Rich · Indie · Atmospheric · Walking Simulator · Exploration · Mystery · Supernatural · First-Person · Adventure · Singleplayer · Visual Novel · Female Protagonist (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * *
ControllerFull support
Achievements17
Official sitehttps://worlds.causewaystudios.com/games/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 or newer Processor: Intel Core i5 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Storage: 15 GB available space