Comparison

MIS Archive vs USB Simulator

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

MIS Archive

Manage an underfunded museum archive, preserving disappearing audiovisual materials and tackling urgent tasks. Recover a rare film at risk while facing the challenges of limited resources and equipment.

Highlights
  • Preserve audiovisual collection
  • Improvised tasks
  • Limited equipment challenges
  • Recover rare film
  • Simulates real museum challenges
Features
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In MIS Archive, you are an employee at an underfunded audiovisual museum. Between improvised tasks and limited equipment, your job is simple and urgent: keep the collection alive. Throughout the game, you try to preserve materials that are already beginning to disappear, while dealing with unlikely tasks, such as fixing the archive room’s old air conditioner. Amid all this, a unique and rare film of the city, shot between the 1950s and 60s, is at risk, and you will have to recover it. But how? That’s for you to find out. Inspired by real museums, MIS Archive is a Brazilian game about the importance of preserving collective memory and the challenges faced by countless cultural institutions in contexts of precariousness and lack of resources.

About

USB Simulator

Experience the relatable frustration of plugging in a USB drive with this pixel-art game. Tap and swipe to correctly insert the drive, with adjustable difficulty levels and fun victory animations.

Highlights
  • Pixel-art graphics
  • Multiple difficulty modes
  • Hand-made animations
  • Streak counter and records
  • Retro sound effects
  • Offline play
  • Available in 32 languages
Features
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Everyone knows the feeling: you try to plug in a USB flash drive, it won't fit, you flip it, it still won't fit, and somehow the first side was right all along. USB SIMULATOR turns that universal struggle into a tiny, funny pixel-art game. HOW IT WORKS Tap or swipe the screen to try to plug the USB stick into the port. Sometimes it slides right in. Most of the time it bumps against the port, flips around, and makes you try the other side. Just like real life. CHOOSE YOUR PAIN • Easy: 30% chance to plug in • Medium: 20% chance to plug in • Hard: 10% chance to plug in • Automatic: Hard odds, but the app keeps trying for you Tap the "i" button on the difficulty screen anytime to check the odds. FEATURES • A 3D USB flash drive with hand-made animations • 4 random pixel-art victory animations when you finally get it in • Hit and miss streak counter • Records: your best streaks for each level • Retro sound effects • Retro pixel-art look with chunky buttons • Four modes, from Easy to Automatic • Pause and exit whenever you want • Available in 32 languages • No ads, no accounts, no internet required The perfect meme game for anyone who has ever failed to plug in a USB three times in a row.

Screenshots

MIS Archive4 screens
USB Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MIS Archive at Free against USB Simulator's $1.99. USB Simulator's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 7 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

MIS Archive is free to download; USB Simulator costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MIS Archive ships an update every 7 months, USB Simulator every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MIS Archive versus USB Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMIS ArchiveUSB Simulator
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB2 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperIsabella BrumJoao Souza

In-app purchases

None

MIS Archive

No in-app purchases

None

USB Simulator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MIS Archive free?
MIS Archive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is USB Simulator free?
USB Simulator costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do MIS Archive or USB Simulator have ads?
Neither MIS Archive nor USB Simulator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MIS Archive or USB Simulator?
MIS Archive ships an update every 7 months, and USB Simulator every 4 days. Most recently, MIS Archive was updated on November 9, 2026 and USB Simulator on October 31, 2026.

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