Feral Interactive announced Tuesday plans to release Tropico 3: Gold Edition for the Mac in January, 2012. It will cost $34.99, available for download from the Mac App Store and other sources.

Tropico 3: Gold Edition is a strategy-based city building game in which you assume the role of El Presidente, the leader of a banana republic, managing infrastructure, the economy and keeping competing factions at bay. It’s up to you how to run your mini-empire, as a police state, vacation paradise or industrial power.

A campaign mode features 15 missions, and the Gold Edition also incorporates an “Absolute Power” expansion module that includes a 10-mission campaign, new islands and “Megalomania” orders.

System requirements call for a 2.0 GHz or faster Intel-based Mac with 2.0 GB RAM, 256 MB or better graphics card and Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later. Additional video requirements exist, so check the Web site for details.