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This weekend marks the return to New York City of Come Out and Play, an annual festival showcasing whimsical, inventive street and live-action games. Much of it takes place Saturday on Governors Island, but for the second year, the festival will include “Come Out and Play After Dark,” a Friday evening event in Dumbo that “will turn the streets into an arcade, with social party games, large physical video games and wild new street games.”

Said games include:

Chirp Club: “a twitchy competitive local multiplayer video game that combines Joust-style movement and combat with elements of field sports.”

Urban Werewolf: A live-action game in which “players must work together to keep their city safe while dealing with the threat that one of them is a werewolf trying to take them down.”

RainboDisko: Both “an homage to the Dada and Fluxus art movements” and “a game of speed, dexterity and anarchy,” it’s “a tabletop game for two-plus players to be played on an operating record player.”

There are a whole bunch of others that sound equally offbeat and intriguing.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is centered around the Manhattan Bridge Archway Plaza, across from 155 Water Street. That’s where you’ll sign up for games, on a first-come, first-served basis.

Come Out and Play After Dark runs Friday from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. For more information, and to see a list of games, click here.

Photos via Come Out and Play; top photo by Lia Bulaong

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