Have you try using the tags? if you have an idea of the gender of the game You can filter games to a certain extent.
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Of course I've tried using combinations of different tags. The problem is that I don't know which tags were chosen by the developer. Their usage is somewhat arbitrary. For example selecting the '2D'-tag removes several games from the results that are clearly '2D'. So if the game in question did not get tagged with it, it would no longer show up. The '2D'-tag would be an obvious choice, though, while others might be more debatable. Another good example is the 'Puzzle-Platformer'-tag that yields short of 14,000 results (with no other filters) while selecting the genre combination 'Puzzle' and 'Platformer' results in far over 16,000 entries. Not all of the latter have to necessarily fit the former, but most likely some of those more than 2,000 do.