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The number isn't part of an address or discord id—I got it by keysmashing—and I haven't drawn a cover (wrote this up in a notes app), but here's a game:

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name: Warp Worms

number: 1794 

days to beat: 1 + 7 + 9 + 4 = 21

genre: Adventure

theme: Comedy

platform: Portals94

feature: Procedural Generation

notes: Warp Worms, released in 1994, sees players take control of The Worm That Walks as it travels through portals trying to reach its grave. In order to pass each procedurally-generated world, you need to gather a selection of ritual components to open the next portal to the next world; this involves exploration, occasional combat, and interacting with semi-coherent generated NPCs*. Known for its extreme difficulty and bizarre sense of humour.

The game ends after travelling through a random number** of portals. It took me the full play-time above to get lucky and only have to travel through 37 portals before the end. I don't advise playing this game yourself and hoping for such a short time***.

*except for the itinerant merchant NPC, Mr. Barter, who not only follows you through the worlds, but is programmed with an impressive memory that records all of your actions and insults you for making bad choices

**between 1 and 65536, randomly picked when you start a new game (in the original Japanese version it was fixed for each game disc, leading to a vicious secondary market among speedrunners looking for discs with the lowest possible numbers)

***I don't advise playing this game yourself, period