diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 21c81843..0869ed76 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@
 [submodule "third_party/tinyxml2"]
 	path = third_party/tinyxml2
 	url = https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/
-[submodule "third_party/utfcpp"]
-	path = third_party/utfcpp
-	url = https://github.com/nemtrif/utfcpp
 [submodule "third_party/FAudio"]
 	path = third_party/FAudio
 	url = https://github.com/FNA-XNA/FAudio
diff --git a/desktop_version/CMakeLists.txt b/desktop_version/CMakeLists.txt
index 094fab4d..aa787895 100644
--- a/desktop_version/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/desktop_version/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -147,7 +147,6 @@ if(BUNDLE_DEPENDENCIES)
         ../third_party/physfs/src
         ../third_party/physfs/extras
         ../third_party/lodepng
-        ../third_party/utfcpp/source
         ../third_party/c-hashmap
         ../third_party/FAudio/include
         ../third_party/FAudio/src
diff --git a/third_party/utfcpp b/third_party/utfcpp
deleted file mode 160000
index d8b92208..00000000
--- a/third_party/utfcpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit d8b92208fddde08d628004563a1a3614a32cf8c8