Tropico is a great strategy game that you can probably pick up for a budget price so buy it!
Tropico is a game developed by PopTop Software. You have been appointed to presidency over the island of tropico. Scenarios range from trying to attract tourists to trying to last as president for more then an appointed number of years.
Tropico is (in my opinion) designed for more advanced strategy game players. There isn't different types of materials that you have to "harvest" it's just money that you earn by building different places like farms, lumber yards hotels and other stuff like that. You use that money earned to build buildings like tenements and houses.
One thing i found extremely annoying was the fact that after I had built 3 tenement buildings for my people to live in ( tenements have the cheapest rent and usually your people dont make alot of money) there were still shacks scattered around my island even though I had less than 100 inhabitents. Your people are also very difficult to please unless everybody makes an equal wage all your inhabitents are well nurished and they have lots of entertainment there will likely be a rival to you. There are also elections about every 10 years unless you choose to have them earlier by choosing a diplomacy ( these are different things you can choose to increase your relations with America or Russia, increase tourism, increase education, decrease crime and other stuff that mostly helps out your island)
Once again thought this game is extremely hard so unless you are ready to spend hours trying to build exactly the right building to meet the needs of your island than I would suggest picking up another game. If you are ready to take the challenge I would reccomend getting the mucho macho edition as it is usually pretty cheap and it comes with the paradise island expansion pack.