In my largely futile search for decent iPhone games, I had high hopes for Galcon. 

Galcon is a real-time game of simplified galactic conquest.  You start off with a planet under your control, as does the enemy.  There are a large number of grey (neutral) planets of varying sizes and with different numbers on them in the field of play.  The size of the planet determines the speed at which it can produce ships for you.  The number which appears on it represents the number of defending spaceships present.  A large planet is not always defended with a high number of ships.  With a flick of your finger, you send a fleet out from your home planet to attack and conquer these neutral planets, or those held by your opponent.

As you gain control of a planet by attacking with enough ships, it will turn to your color and begin to build ships for you.  If you let a planet alone, it’s fleet size will build up and up.  Of course, you can send your fleets out to attack from that planet, or send fleets from multiple planets after a hostile planet.  You can also control the percentage of the fleet you are sending.  As you take over planets and move fleets, your opponent is doing the same.  The goal is simple: destroy your enemy.

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