2K Games has recently announced a special, limited time only Summer Sale featuring Sid Meier’s Starships. Beginning next week on Sunday, June 7th, Sid Meier’s Starships will be available for the reduced price of $8.99 on the App Store for iPad and will run through June 11th.

Developed by Sid Meier, creator of the award-winning Sid Meier’s Civilization series, Sid Meier’s Starships challenges players to command a fleet of starships within the narrative universe of Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth while embarking on a series of turn-based missions. Along the way, players explore the galaxy in search of other civilizations, protect planets and their people, as well as build a Federation to achieve intergalactic peace.

Sid Meier’s Starships includes the following features:

• Tactical Space Combat: Encounter unique tactical challenges in every mission, with dynamically generated maps, victory conditions, and foes.
• Fully Customizable Starships: Develop customizable armadas for tactical plans with modular spaceship design.
• Diplomacy, Strategy and Exploration: Expand Federation influence by coming to the aid of each planet’s citizens, using their unique abilities to enhance player fleets and hinder opponents, as well as building improvements on worlds to increase capabilities and resources.
• Multiple Paths to Victory: Declare victory by conquering threats to the galaxy, uniting a plurality of worlds through a Federation or leading constituents to push scientific frontiers.

As of now we’re not sure if 2K Games will be adding more of their titles to the sale, however, we’ll be sure to keep you updated.