Rainy Day Games

it’s okay, they do have a great selection, but as many others have said the service is a little smug. (And it does smells in the play area like onions and b.o.)

Great game selection. I come here for all board game needs. They also have toys and disc golf protects. The staff is friendly and helpful.

Brought my kid and my dog today because my kid was looking for some small dragon figurines. Owner let my dog in despite «policy». Love this place all kinds of fun stuff.

My honey and I like to come here to try out games before we buy. They have a good collection in the back, and they also always have some easy ones set up and ready to play with staff members. Kind of reminds me of my serving days when they told you to «push the fish»… but I digress.
I haven’t taken part in any of their tournaments, but it sounds like they get a lot of traffic. They also sometimes close the store for them, so check their website to see if they are actually open– I’ve shown up excited to play games and gone home disappointed before. I’d hate for that to happen to you!
The price comparisons I’ve done comparing Rainy Day Games and Amazon have always been between 10−20% more expensive at RDG. If it’s on the 20% side, I usually buy elsewhere, and if it’s more like 10%, I buy at Rainy Day Games. I still support the little guys, but hey, I’m underpaid and frugal.
I’ll keep coming back, because they are fun and friendly and have a decent selection of all kinds of games, puzzles, and … disc golf supplies?
One suggestion: it’s pretty ripe in there. Work on that ventilation, and a couple plug-​ins would go a loooong way.

Took the Mini Figurine Painting intro with Mark last night. He did a great job! It was a little hard to hear because there was a tournament happening in the same space, but my boyfriend and I had a lot of fun. We are very much interested in the next class!

Rainy Day Games is a great place to go to get something a little special. In addition to the standards, RDG carries a large selection of strategy, party, trading card, and role playing games. It has, by far, the most knowledgable and friendly staff in town. Overall, just a great place for games.

I think they have just about every game you can want there. Some of the prices are even better than
! Some a tag bit more but i think it’s well worth it to support local business. Especially one with such great customer services.
Staff were knowledge on all the questions we had. You can sense and feel that they love the games! about a ¹⁄₃ of the shop had open tables and games that are open for people to try/​play.
I also saw some people line up to sign up for tournament. Definitely will check out the calendar here in a bit. Maybe i’ll see you there!

OOOOOHHHH MMMMMYYYYY GAAAAAWWWWDDDDD!!!
THEY HAVE A STAR TREK CATAN. I ABOUT PEED MY PANTS.
Okay, but seriously, if you want a game they are seriously the place to go. Great organization, GREAT selection, and very friendly staff.
I was looking for a specific game, but didn’t know the title, vaguely described it to a helper and he lead me right to it. I was amazed. Maybe they are wizards.
I have also been looking for a four track cribbage board and of course found it here for $ 25.
So happy.

Good game store, good selection, well organized.
Sales people are happy to help, and really good about recommending a new game based on the kinds you already like.
But hard to compete with the sheer scale of Guardian Games.

We’re always happy to support this local business. They have an amazing selection and super friendly staff. If you want a game, puzzle, or fun toy for kids, teens or adults, this place can’t be beat.

Every time I come in it is such a friendly atmosphere and the staff is very helpful. My son has gotten in to pokemon & we started going to the league on satus. We showed up today not looking at the calendar & no league today. Needless to say he was disappointed but one staff member went out of his way to make him feel important. He says thanks a bunch, as well as his greatful parents do for a much more pleasant rest of our day.

Nice medium sized game store. Playing area at the back is small and can be a bit noisy.

So, let me start off by saying I play cards at just about every hobby store in Portland and surrounding areas. I definitely like some more than others, in fact, I don’t care how pretty your décor is, or how awesome I find the staff, as long as I can play and enjoy myself, it’s enough for me, so no bias in this review here. In fact, I was hesitant to write this review until I talked to a few people and realized they have also had some less than stellar experiences at the store.
That being said, I started going to Rainy Day a few months ago when I got back into MTG and was feeling out spots. This store is fast. Unlike most stores that take about an hour between rounds, this place probably takes about 35 minutes, which is convenient because I work nights.
Well, the first thing that should have tipped me off was my first time ever visiting the store. Despite it being my first visit, I had an outside drink, wasn’t aware of the policy, and asked them if they could make a one time exception– NO. Okay, that’s kind of douchey to make me throw out my drink but fine.
The second issue I had with Rainy Day was the fact that they charge money for land on draft nights (free cards that most people literally throw away) — it’s ODD. No store in my 2 ½ years of playing Magic (even back home in NYC) have I ever heard of this. I even paid for it a few times. One night, I was slow on deck building and had to purchase $ 10 sleeves, in my rush I grabbed land, and would you believe that one of the employees reported it to the manager and he actually chased me down, a regular, who spends $ 30 plus on the store weekly, for a single $ 1 after making a $ 10 extra purchase! WOW.
I was so bothered by it that I stopped going to Rainy Day but decided after two months I would give them another try. I showed up 1 minute after 6:01 for an event that they had NOT EVEN STARTED YET, and yes, they turned me away– because why? Probably because they felt like it, and don’t seem to get that heart of hobby stores is the love of games and the people who play them.
I will not be visiting you again Rainy Day Games, I hope $ 1 and 1 minute was worth losing out on a regular customer.

The staff was super friendly and helpful. They were very willing to spend time talking about the products and sharing their knowledge. The selection was amazing and diverse. I wish we had a game store like this in my home town!

Great game shop.
Friendly staff, great selection of board games, RPG, and card games.

Such friendly, many helpful.

I just had a great tome at Rainy Day during the International Table Top Day Event. Found some strangers who cheerfully invited me aboard their starship. We played Space Cadet and I operated the sensors to detect enemies and valuable crystal deposits. I also successfully used the tractor beam to grab crystals and increase chances of destroying enemy ships. It was a lot of fun and the staff are always attentive and helpful.
Thanks for the fun afternoon.

By far, the nicest looking store in the state, what with the purchase of a TON of fixtures thanks to the Border’s closures.
The store has a way more upscale feel than most of the other competitors, but it’s located in a kinda ratty-​looking strip-​mall in Aloha, so it’s an interesting dichotomy.
All things gaming, but, sadly, no used/​OOP RPG stuff — if they do buy used stuff, they don’t advertise it and nobody appears to be selling.
They also have a pretty extensive disc golf selection, if you’re into that kind of thing.
They carry a fantastic selection of new product, so if you’re in the area, by all means, check it out.

My husband loves him some board games and puzzles. He’s even invented a board game. No, you haven’t heard of it.
Rainy Day games is a great place to shop for puzzles and games. They have an awesome selection. They also have one of the best Ugly Doll collections of any store I have been in (Piccolo Mondo is starting to give them a run for their money though).
Hubby only likes CECO puzzles, don’t ask me, it’s a long thing. But they have a good amount of those. They make nice Christmas gifts.
I have kids I have worked with who have in the past come hang in the back for their game stuff, they play Magic and D and D and things like that. It’s a decent place for gamer kids to hang out with one another and make some friends.
I like having this resource in our community, it’s cool.

Rainy days are my favorite, so I’m partial to the name of the place. Like a doofus, I asked, «But why don’t they call it ‘shiny happy double rainbow-​y days’, or something that invokes joy in most normal folks unlike me?» Wherein I was enlightened that it’s a place where you get goodies to kill the time on rainy days.
Doi.
My stupidity aside, it’s a gamer geek’s winter (and spring and summer and fall) wonderland. I magically transformed into a gleeful five year old upon walking through their doors, and was smiling, painfully, ear-​to-​ear, the whole drive home. The green Ugly Dolls hat and the zombie finger puppets helped with that though.
As far as gamer stores go, it’s really well organized, clean, well laid out. There are tons of original, new rendition, and expansion sets for Magic, Zombies, Munchkin … I really dig the happy middle-​of-​the-​road meeting of Old School meets New World.
And the puzzle selection? HOLY HELL. I am a puzzle snob. I do not want to do a puzzle of a coffee mug with an American flag on it. Or a puzzle of a Kincaid painting with the froofroo flower garden. Or a cutesy little puppy. Oh no. I want mosaic puzzles, 1000 piece puzzles, puzzles that will make my eyes cross, my shoulders cramp, and my knuckles wilt. GIVE. And gave they did. I was actually torn between a really cool Wizard of Oz puzzle and one of the Green man. Lo, Green Man Trumps lions and tigers and bears.
Awesome puzzle selection.
They also have the goods for that disc golf sport that i know nothing of and makes me pee my pants a bit just thinking about it. Pee aside, they have it.
Really cool place. Watch your pocket book. Children have no semblance of financial responsibility, and you WILL succumb to a child in the midst of summer skipping up the road on a lovely lovely day.