Tools & Resources

TCM is mod-friendly even to total beginners via the Steam Workshop and making mods has really never been easier. You can reach out to me, the developer, via email if your mod requires extra utilities. Also, you're welcome to hit me up with support questions but please be aware that these tools weren't written by me and the scope of help I can provide is limited.

The basic process:Subscribing to mods in the Steam Workshop creates a local folder using the Steam Mod ID. This folder hangs out here:

steamapps\workshop\content\2414410\[ModID#]

When the game's launched, the subscribed content gets moved into the game folder. Everything inside of steamapps/workshop/content/2414410/[modID#] will move into steamapps/common/Tri City Monsters/game/

This will overwrite any existing files with the same name, including ones from other mods! To avoid accidential overwrites, follow these best practices:

• Only rewrite game files if you absolutely have to.
• If the mod does not need to be saved to a specific folder, you should have it write to steamapps/common/Tri City Monsters/game/mods/[your mod name_modID#]
• Example: steamapps/common/Tri City Monsters/game/mods/unlock_everything_3717867110/unlock_everything.rpy
• You can find the ModID# once the mod's been uploaded to Steam. On your mod page, click the Share button to bring up the URL. The ModID is at the end.
• Example: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3717867110

• Inside the Steam Workshop Uploader, you'll have a folder that contains your mod. Everything in that folder gets uploaded to Steam.
• Example: My mod is contained in this folder: SteamWorkshopUploader\WorkshopContent\Unlock Everything\mods\unlock_everything_3717867110\unlock_everything.py.
• Steam saves those files to SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\2414410\3717867110\mods\unlock_everything_3717867110\unlock_everything.rpy.
• When the game gets launched for the first time, they move to SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TriCityMonsters\game\mods\unlock_everything_3717867110\unlock_everything.rpy
• Translations must live in the 'tl' folder inside the game directory.
• If your translation requires its own font, the font needs to be kept in the fonts folder.
• Example: steamapps\common\Tri City Monsters\game\fonts\[your-font.ttf║.otf║.ttc]
• You should also name your translation folder after the language itself in all lower case.
• Example for Spanish: steamapps\common\Tri City Monsters\game\tl\spanish

Some other things to consider:

• Only files on the whitelist can be copied into the game. Contact me if your mod requires a file not on this list and I'll see what I can do:
• .rpy, .rpyc, .rpa, .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .webp, .gif, .webm, .ogv, .mp4, .avi, .ogg, .opus, .mp3, .wav, .flac, .ttf, .otf, .ttc, .json, .txt, .csv
• The Steam Workshop uploader is here. As an example, the "Unlock Everything" mod is inside, as well as a translation template.
• You'll need to open the translation template in a text editor and mass find/replace the word 'template' into the language you're translating into, in all lower case letters.
• Example: french, spanish, japanese


TCM has a Language Menu set to appear only if a user has a translation mod installed, so you won't need to worry about how to enable/disable tranlations, it just needs to be in the 'tl' folder.




This is a tool for uploading content to Steam Workshop to modify Tri City Monsters- I'm not the original creator of them but I did add the TCM App ID and example tags to the configs for ease of use. Please check out the tools github for more information on how to use them.

For Windows and Mac Support

For Linux Support



You can also use the Steam Workshop to make translations of TCM. Check out the official Ren'Py documentation on translation to get an in-depth idea of how it works.

Translating Ren'Py Itself

Ren'Py's Translation Framework