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I have recently been playing a lot of the game "Patchwork" (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/163412/patchwork) and really am enjoying it, but it becomes redundant quickly as it is a two player game. I'm looking to find more games of this type so that I can have a game rotation. I'm just not sure on how I can find games that are similar in quality, fun, game time, complexity, etc.
So what would be a good way other than reading all the reviews on websites or forums to find same style games?
It is ambiguous as to what the "certain type" really is. If you look on the "full credits" notebook page for that game you'll find the "Categories", "Mechanisms" and "Families" which have been listed for that game.
You can search for various combinations of "Categories" and "Mechanisms" using the advanced search option. For instance this BGG search yields the games which are in the "abstract strategy" Category and use the "tile placement" mechanism.
There isn't any way to restrict a search to/through a "Family". You'll just have to spin through the whole list for each family. There are a lot of games in the Combinatorial family (and the BGG family misses many since this is a "new" family). There are also a lot of games in the Polyominoes family.
If you look under the "Classification" section on the game's BGG page, you can click one of those tags to see other games with similar features. E.g.: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamemechanic/2041/card-drafting
If the (advanced) search results of BGG do not satisfy you you should try to find additional keywords. One solution is to click on the Designer of the game you are looking for. In the case of Patchwork this is Uwe Rosenberg. There you get a list of all games he designed. If you look at the games you will find that "A Feast for Odin" (a more complex game) and "Cottage Garden" (more or less the same complexity as patchwork) use the same puzzling mechanism. If you check these BGG pages you can find additional Categories and Mechanisms for such games and use them in the advanced search.
