diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 37e6d1ec..6265380b 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -26,3 +26,6 @@
 [submodule "ref/vcpkg"]
 	path = ref/vcpkg
 	url = https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git
+[submodule "ref/tgui"]
+	path = ref/tgui
+	url = https://github.com/texus/TGUI
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index cc985830..e255a87a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ option(WITH_BETTER_RENDERER "Experimental multi-backend renderer based on NVRHI"
 option(GENERATE_PDB "Generate executable with program debugging symbols" ON)
 option(ENABLE_MCC "Enable multicore compilation" ON)
 option(WITHDUMPGEN "Enable generating DMP files on crash" ON)
+option(WITH_TGUI "Enable TGUI interface" ON)
 
 set(BUILD_EXAMPLES OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
 
@@ -491,6 +492,27 @@ else()
 	target_compile_definitions(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC WITH_DISCORD_RPC=0)
 endif()
 
+if (WITH_TGUI)
+    find_package(Freetype REQUIRED)
+    target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} Freetype::Freetype)
+
+    set(TGUI_SHARED_LIBS OFF CACHE BOOL "Build static libs" FORCE)
+    set(TGUI_BACKEND "GLFW_OPENGL3" CACHE STRING "TGUI backend")
+
+    add_subdirectory(ref/tgui)
+    set_target_properties(tgui PROPERTIES FOLDER "libraries")
+
+    target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} tgui)
+    target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC
+        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/ref/tgui/include"
+    )
+
+    target_compile_definitions(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC WITH_TGUI=1)
+else()
+    target_compile_definitions(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC WITH_TGUI=0)
+endif()
+
+
 
 find_package(OpenAL REQUIRED)
 if (TARGET OpenAL::OpenAL)
diff --git a/ref/tgui b/ref/tgui
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..17b31539
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ref/tgui
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 17b31539f492522eb531c598aff361118cf8c885
diff --git a/setup.bat b/setup.bat
index 7b6fa491..1897b736 100644
--- a/setup.bat
+++ b/setup.bat
@@ -3,5 +3,6 @@ echo Preparing vcpkg packages
 cd ref\vcpkg
 call bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
 vcpkg install directx-dxc:x64-windows
+vcpkg install freetype:x64-windows
 cd ..\..
 @echo ON
diff --git a/uilayer.cpp b/uilayer.cpp
index 9f9b656b..b62ea3c6 100644
--- a/uilayer.cpp
+++ b/uilayer.cpp
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
 #include "stdafx.h"
 #include "uilayer.h"
 
+#include "TGUI/TGUI.hpp"
+#include <TGUI/Backend/GLFW-OpenGL3.hpp>
+
 #include "Globals.h"
 #include "renderer.h"
 #include "Logs.h"