Ultraviolet Dawn brings more space combat and trading gameplay to iPhone

It's not enough to be called a flood, but there's certainly a trickle of space-based trading and combat games released or coming to iPhone.

There's already been Freeverse's Warpgate and Venan's Space Miner, and we're looking forward to Fishlabs's Galaxy on Fire 2 and Celsius's Red Nova.

And Sad Cat Software, which previously came up with tank shooter Project Phoenix, has launched into the stars with Ultraviolet Dawn.

As is typical with such titles, it's open-ended, allowing you to pick your gameplay style.

As Sad Cat puts it, "There is no pre-determined way to play the game. You choose what you want to be and how you want to play. You can be a peaceful merchant, shuttling goods between stars. You can be an outlaw, attacking innocent ships and capturing their cargo. You can be a smuggler, trading in illegal goods banned by the Intergalactic Federation. You can even run missions, both legal and illegal."

Of course, cash is the reason you play as it allows you to upgrade your ship with weapons and other features such as engines and shields, or buy a better one.

Ultraviolet Dawn is out now, and is free for a day. You can see how it plays in the video below.

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