diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 64995f1c31..54b352717b 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -84,3 +84,6 @@
 [submodule "Externals/Vulkan-Headers"]
 	path = Externals/Vulkan-Headers
 	url = https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Headers.git
+[submodule "Externals/watcher/watcher"]
+	path = Externals/watcher/watcher
+	url = https://github.com/e-dant/watcher.git
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 5b246b193b..037242abb5 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -775,6 +775,8 @@ if (USE_RETRO_ACHIEVEMENTS)
 	add_subdirectory(Externals/rcheevos)
 endif()
 
+add_subdirectory(Externals/watcher)
+
 ########################################
 # Pre-build events: Define configuration variables and write SCM info header
 #
diff --git a/Externals/watcher/CMakeLists.txt b/Externals/watcher/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..097f16d647
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Externals/watcher/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+add_library(watcher INTERFACE IMPORTED GLOBAL)
+set_target_properties(watcher PROPERTIES
+	INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/watcher/include
+)
diff --git a/Externals/watcher/watcher b/Externals/watcher/watcher
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..0d6b9b409c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Externals/watcher/watcher
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 0d6b9b409ccaed6313437ea3dc8b2fc078f3d25b
diff --git a/Source/Core/VideoCommon/CMakeLists.txt b/Source/Core/VideoCommon/CMakeLists.txt
index e24680185e..039e1abad9 100644
--- a/Source/Core/VideoCommon/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Source/Core/VideoCommon/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ PRIVATE
   implot
   glslang
   tinygltf
+  watcher
 )
 
 if(_M_X86_64)
diff --git a/Source/VSProps/Base.Dolphin.props b/Source/VSProps/Base.Dolphin.props
index d3ef409c9e..53e5ec264c 100644
--- a/Source/VSProps/Base.Dolphin.props
+++ b/Source/VSProps/Base.Dolphin.props
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
       <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>$(ExternalsDir)rangeset\include;%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
       <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>$(ExternalsDir)Vulkan-Headers\include;%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
       <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>$(ExternalsDir)VulkanMemoryAllocator\include;%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
+      <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>$(ExternalsDir)watcher\watcher\include;%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
       <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>$(ExternalsDir)WIL\include;%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
       <!--WIL doesn't have it's own vcxproj/exports, and no externals reference WIL, so this is fine to define only for Dolphin-->
       <PreprocessorDefinitions>WIL_SUPPRESS_EXCEPTIONS;%(PreprocessorDefinitions)</PreprocessorDefinitions>