History is not a closed chapter but a recursive system that repeats, mutates and persists in the infrastructures of the present. Haunting of the East India Company is a mauseological experience set in the midst of a collapsing London where the spectres of the British Empire haunt, in the form of grotesque digital renders of historical artworks, artefacts and monuments that stand petrified in the labyrinthine underground crypt of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Embracing notions of fugitivity, the game places the player in a state of constant escape – running to find respite from ecological crises, running through the architectures of history, running from Empire’s afterlives.

Drawing from the historical arc of the East India Company, from the Treaty of Allahabad (1765) to the First War of Indian Independence (1857), the game is a reflection on the CICC School programme’s East India Company Walking Tours at St. Paul’s Cathedral and the East India Docks.