diff --git a/src/openrct2-ui/drawing/engines/SoftwareDrawingEngine.cpp b/src/openrct2-ui/drawing/engines/SoftwareDrawingEngine.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 946b653389..0000000000
--- a/src/openrct2-ui/drawing/engines/SoftwareDrawingEngine.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,169 +0,0 @@
-/*****************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2014-2025 OpenRCT2 developers
- *
- * For a complete list of all authors, please refer to contributors.md
- * Interested in contributing? Visit https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2
- *
- * OpenRCT2 is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
- *****************************************************************************/
-
-#include "DrawingEngineFactory.hpp"
-
-#include <SDL.h>
-#include <algorithm>
-#include <openrct2/Diagnostic.h>
-#include <openrct2/Game.h>
-#include <openrct2/config/Config.h>
-#include <openrct2/core/Guard.hpp>
-#include <openrct2/drawing/IDrawingEngine.h>
-#include <openrct2/drawing/X8DrawingEngine.h>
-#include <openrct2/ui/UiContext.h>
-
-using namespace OpenRCT2;
-using namespace OpenRCT2::Drawing;
-using namespace OpenRCT2::Ui;
-
-class SoftwareDrawingEngine final : public X8DrawingEngine
-{
-private:
-    std::shared_ptr<IUiContext> const _uiContext;
-    SDL_Window* _window = nullptr;
-    SDL_Surface* _surface = nullptr;
-    SDL_Surface* _RGBASurface = nullptr;
-    SDL_Palette* _palette = nullptr;
-
-public:
-    explicit SoftwareDrawingEngine(const std::shared_ptr<IUiContext>& uiContext)
-        : X8DrawingEngine(uiContext)
-        , _uiContext(uiContext)
-    {
-        _window = static_cast<SDL_Window*>(_uiContext->GetWindow());
-    }
-
-    ~SoftwareDrawingEngine() override
-    {
-        SDL_FreeSurface(_surface);
-        SDL_FreeSurface(_RGBASurface);
-        SDL_FreePalette(_palette);
-    }
-
-    void Initialise() override
-    {
-    }
-
-    void Resize(uint32_t width, uint32_t height) override
-    {
-        SDL_FreeSurface(_surface);
-        SDL_FreeSurface(_RGBASurface);
-        SDL_FreePalette(_palette);
-
-        _surface = SDL_CreateRGBSurface(0, width, height, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0);
-        _RGBASurface = SDL_CreateRGBSurface(0, width, height, 32, 0, 0, 0, 0);
-        SDL_SetSurfaceBlendMode(_RGBASurface, SDL_BLENDMODE_NONE);
-        _palette = SDL_AllocPalette(256);
-
-        if (_surface == nullptr || _palette == nullptr || _RGBASurface == nullptr)
-        {
-            LOG_FATAL("%p || %p || %p == nullptr %s", _surface, _palette, _RGBASurface, SDL_GetError());
-            exit(-1);
-        }
-
-        if (SDL_SetSurfacePalette(_surface, _palette))
-        {
-            LOG_FATAL("SDL_SetSurfacePalette failed %s", SDL_GetError());
-            exit(-1);
-        }
-
-        ConfigureBits(width, height, _surface->pitch);
-    }
-
-    void SetPalette(const GamePalette& palette) override
-    {
-        SDL_Surface* windowSurface = SDL_GetWindowSurface(_window);
-        if (windowSurface != nullptr && _palette != nullptr)
-        {
-            SDL_Colour colours[256];
-            for (int32_t i = 0; i < 256; i++)
-            {
-                colours[i].r = palette[i].Red;
-                colours[i].g = palette[i].Green;
-                colours[i].b = palette[i].Blue;
-                colours[i].a = palette[i].Alpha;
-            }
-            SDL_SetPaletteColors(_palette, colours, 0, 256);
-        }
-    }
-
-    void EndDraw() override
-    {
-        X8DrawingEngine::EndDraw();
-
-        Display();
-    }
-
-private:
-    void Display()
-    {
-        // Lock the surface before setting its pixels
-        if (SDL_MUSTLOCK(_surface))
-        {
-            if (SDL_LockSurface(_surface) < 0)
-            {
-                LOG_ERROR("locking failed %s", SDL_GetError());
-                return;
-            }
-        }
-
-        // Copy pixels from the virtual screen buffer to the surface
-        std::copy_n(_bits, _surface->pitch * _surface->h, static_cast<uint8_t*>(_surface->pixels));
-
-        // Unlock the surface
-        if (SDL_MUSTLOCK(_surface))
-        {
-            SDL_UnlockSurface(_surface);
-        }
-
-// On macOS with high DPI ("retina") screens this renders only to a quarter of the screen.
-// A workaround is to always scale the surface, but that incurs an additonal copy.
-// https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/issues/21772
-#if !defined(__APPLE__)
-        // Copy the surface to the window
-        if (Config::Get().general.WindowScale == 1 || Config::Get().general.WindowScale <= 0)
-        {
-            SDL_Surface* windowSurface = SDL_GetWindowSurface(_window);
-            if (SDL_BlitSurface(_surface, nullptr, windowSurface, nullptr))
-            {
-                LOG_FATAL("SDL_BlitSurface %s", SDL_GetError());
-                exit(1);
-            }
-        }
-        else
-#endif
-        {
-            // first blit to rgba surface to change the pixel format
-            if (SDL_BlitSurface(_surface, nullptr, _RGBASurface, nullptr))
-            {
-                LOG_FATAL("SDL_BlitSurface %s", SDL_GetError());
-                exit(1);
-            }
-
-            // then scale to window size. Without changing to RGBA first, SDL complains
-            // about blit configurations being incompatible.
-            if (SDL_BlitScaled(_RGBASurface, nullptr, SDL_GetWindowSurface(_window), nullptr))
-            {
-                LOG_FATAL("SDL_BlitScaled %s", SDL_GetError());
-                exit(1);
-            }
-        }
-        if (SDL_UpdateWindowSurface(_window))
-        {
-            LOG_FATAL("SDL_UpdateWindowSurface %s", SDL_GetError());
-            exit(1);
-        }
-    }
-};
-
-std::unique_ptr<IDrawingEngine> OpenRCT2::Ui::CreateSoftwareDrawingEngine(const std::shared_ptr<IUiContext>& uiContext)
-{
-    return std::make_unique<SoftwareDrawingEngine>(uiContext);
-}
diff --git a/src/openrct2-ui/libopenrct2ui.vcxproj b/src/openrct2-ui/libopenrct2ui.vcxproj
index 82e299cf25..2f1e8233cc 100644
--- a/src/openrct2-ui/libopenrct2ui.vcxproj
+++ b/src/openrct2-ui/libopenrct2ui.vcxproj
@@ -128,7 +128,6 @@
     <ClCompile Include="drawing\engines\opengl\SwapFramebuffer.cpp" />
     <ClCompile Include="drawing\engines\opengl\TextureCache.cpp" />
     <ClCompile Include="drawing\engines\opengl\TransparencyDepth.cpp" />
-    <ClCompile Include="drawing\engines\SoftwareDrawingEngine.cpp" />
     <ClCompile Include="input\InputManager.cpp" />
     <ClCompile Include="input\Shortcuts.cpp" />
     <ClCompile Include="input\MouseInput.cpp" />