diff --git a/ports/sciter-js/portfile.cmake b/ports/sciter-js/portfile.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..b9f438d5b97211
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/sciter-js/portfile.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+vcpkg_check_linkage(ONLY_DYNAMIC_LIBRARY)
+
+if(VCPKG_TARGET_IS_UWP)
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "Sciter only supports Windows Desktop")
+endif()
+
+set(VCPKG_POLICY_DLLS_WITHOUT_LIBS enabled)
+
+set(SCITER_REVISION d5a13ff197fed3af46d4bc931c158828eb61e357)
+set(SCITER_SHA 5be2db9d2e5caa19be158020a084a246acd6dad2047062f603b3af4f3cdbdd7f7750b263ad6dfaa6c3667de6c51084fc2df75cd3cb8cd60501550377dded1928)
+
+if(VCPKG_TARGET_ARCHITECTURE STREQUAL x64)
+    set(SCITER_ARCH x64)
+elseif(VCPKG_TARGET_ARCHITECTURE STREQUAL x86)
+    set(SCITER_ARCH x32)
+else()
+	message(FATAL_ERROR "Sciter only supports x86/x64")
+endif()
+
+# check out the `https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/archive/${SCITER_REVISION}.tar.gz`
+# hash checksum can be obtained with `curl -L -o tmp.tgz ${URL} && vcpkg hash tmp.tgz`
+vcpkg_from_github(
+    OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
+    REPO c-smile/sciter-js-sdk
+    REF ${SCITER_REVISION}
+    SHA512 ${SCITER_SHA}
+)
+
+# install include directory
+file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/include/ DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/include/sciter-js
+    FILES_MATCHING
+    PATTERN "*.cpp"
+    PATTERN "*.mm"
+    PATTERN "*.h"
+    PATTERN "*.hpp"
+)
+
+set(SCITER_SHARE "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/sciter-js")
+set(SCITER_TOOLS ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/tools/sciter-js)
+set(TOOL_PERMS FILE_PERMISSIONS OWNER_READ OWNER_WRITE OWNER_EXECUTE GROUP_READ GROUP_EXECUTE WORLD_READ WORLD_EXECUTE)
+
+# license
+file(COPY ${SOURCE_PATH}/logfile.md DESTINATION ${SCITER_SHARE})
+file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/LICENSE DESTINATION ${SCITER_SHARE} RENAME copyright)
+
+# tools
+if(VCPKG_TARGET_IS_LINUX AND VCPKG_TARGET_ARCHITECTURE STREQUAL "x64")
+    set(SCITER_BIN ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin/linux/x64)
+
+    file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin/linux/packfolder DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS} ${TOOL_PERMS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin/linux/qjs DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS} ${TOOL_PERMS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin/linux/qjsc DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS} ${TOOL_PERMS})
+
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/usciter DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS} ${TOOL_PERMS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/inspector DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS} ${TOOL_PERMS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/libsciter-gtk.so DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/sciter-sqlite.so DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+
+    if ("windowless" IN_LIST FEATURES)
+        set(SCITER_BIN ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin.lite/linux/x64)
+    endif()
+
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/libsciter-gtk.so DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/bin)
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/libsciter-gtk.so DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/bin)
+
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/sciter-sqlite.so DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/bin)
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/sciter-sqlite.so DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/bin)
+
+elseif(VCPKG_TARGET_IS_OSX)
+    set(SCITER_BIN ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin/macosx)
+
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/packfolder DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS} ${TOOL_PERMS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/qjs DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS} ${TOOL_PERMS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/qjsc DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS} ${TOOL_PERMS})
+
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/inspector.app DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/usciterjs.app DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/libsciter.dylib DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+
+    execute_process(COMMAND sh -c "chmod +x usciterjs.app/Contents/MacOS/usciterjs" WORKING_DIRECTORY ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+    execute_process(COMMAND sh -c "chmod +x inspector.app/Contents/MacOS/inspector" WORKING_DIRECTORY ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/libsciter.dylib DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/bin)
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/libsciter.dylib DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/bin)
+
+elseif(VCPKG_TARGET_IS_WINDOWS)
+    set(SCITER_BIN ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin/windows/${SCITER_ARCH})
+    set(SCITER_BIN32 ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin/windows/x32)
+
+    file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin/windows/packfolder.exe DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin/windows/qjs.exe DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin/windows/qjsc.exe DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/scapp.exe DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/usciter.exe DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/inspector.exe DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/sciter.dll DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/sciter-sqlite.dll DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
+
+    if ("windowless" IN_LIST FEATURES)
+        set(SCITER_BIN ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin.lite/windows/${SCITER_ARCH})
+    endif()
+
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/sciter.dll DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/bin)
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/sciter.dll DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/bin)
+
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/sciter-sqlite.dll DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/bin)
+    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/sciter-sqlite.dll DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/bin)
+
+    message(WARNING "Sciter requires manual deployment of the correct DLL files.")
+endif()
diff --git a/ports/sciter-js/vcpkg.json b/ports/sciter-js/vcpkg.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..46e0121088d952
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/sciter-js/vcpkg.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "name": "sciter-js",
+  "version-string": "4.4.8.16",
+  "description": "Sciter.JS - Sciter but with QuickJS on board instead of TIScript. Sciter is an embeddable HTML/CSS/scripting engine.",
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk",
+  "supports": "!uwp & !arm & !static",
+  "features": {
+    "windowless": {
+      "description": "windowless version - lite version"
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/ports/sciter/portfile.cmake b/ports/sciter/portfile.cmake
index eab17e4e65cf64..8c8fe9f83956b1 100644
--- a/ports/sciter/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/sciter/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,105 +1,12 @@
-vcpkg_check_linkage(ONLY_DYNAMIC_LIBRARY)
+set(VCPKG_POLICY_EMPTY_PACKAGE enabled)
 
-if(VCPKG_CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL "WindowsStore")
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "Sciter only supports Windows Desktop")
-endif()
+message(FATAL_ERROR "The sciter port is deprecated by upstream and conflicts with upstream's replacement.
 
-# header-only library
-set(VCPKG_POLICY_DLLS_WITHOUT_LIBS enabled)
+Upstream has stopped active development of sciter and instead encourage users to move to a new library Sciter.JS that uses javascript as the internal scripting language (sciter-js in vcpkg).
 
-set(SCITER_REVISION 29a598b6d20220b93848b5e8abab704619296857)
-set(SCITER_SHA dc9ebcc59a4ca7b154efcbd96c7e0aa53dc344f6a2cfa91f8c351c1edc5a0f060129715f8eac85e00df9b6c153322a9ba36b430da5020d38769740434cbcd52c)
-
-if(VCPKG_TARGET_ARCHITECTURE STREQUAL x64)
-    set(SCITER_ARCH x64)
-elseif(VCPKG_TARGET_ARCHITECTURE STREQUAL x86)
-    set(SCITER_ARCH x32)
-endif()
-
-# check out the `https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/archive/${SCITER_REVISION}.tar.gz`
-# hash checksum can be obtained with `curl -L -o tmp.tgz ${URL} && vcpkg hash tmp.tgz`
-vcpkg_from_github(
-    OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
-    REPO c-smile/sciter-sdk
-    REF ${SCITER_REVISION}
-    SHA512 ${SCITER_SHA}
-)
-
-# install include directory
-file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/include/ DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/include/sciter
-    FILES_MATCHING
-    PATTERN "*.cpp"
-    PATTERN "*.mm"
-    PATTERN "*.h"
-    PATTERN "*.hpp"
-)
-
-set(SCITER_SHARE ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/sciter)
-set(SCITER_TOOLS ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/tools/sciter)
-set(TOOL_PERMS FILE_PERMISSIONS OWNER_READ OWNER_WRITE OWNER_EXECUTE GROUP_READ GROUP_EXECUTE WORLD_READ WORLD_EXECUTE)
-
-# license
-file(COPY ${SOURCE_PATH}/logfile.htm DESTINATION ${SCITER_SHARE})
-file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/license.htm DESTINATION ${SCITER_SHARE} RENAME copyright)
-
-# samples & widgets
-file(COPY ${SOURCE_PATH}/samples DESTINATION ${SCITER_SHARE})
-file(COPY ${SOURCE_PATH}/widgets DESTINATION ${SCITER_SHARE})
-
-# tools
-if(VCPKG_CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL Linux AND VCPKG_TARGET_ARCHITECTURE STREQUAL x64)
-    set(SCITER_BIN ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin.lnx/x64)
-
-    file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin.lnx/packfolder DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS} ${TOOL_PERMS})
-    file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin.lnx/tiscript DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS} ${TOOL_PERMS})
-
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/usciter DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS} ${TOOL_PERMS})
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/inspector DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS} ${TOOL_PERMS})
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/libsciter-gtk.so DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
-
-    if ("windowless" IN_LIST FEATURES)
-        set(SCITER_BIN ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin.lnx/x64lite)
-    endif()
-
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/libsciter-gtk.so DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/bin)
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/libsciter-gtk.so DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/bin)
-
-elseif(VCPKG_CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL Darwin)
-    set(SCITER_BIN ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin.osx)
-
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/packfolder DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS} ${TOOL_PERMS})
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/tiscript DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS} ${TOOL_PERMS})
-
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/inspector.app DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/sciter.app DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/libsciter.dylib DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
-
-    # not sure whether there is a better way to do this, because
-    # `file(INSTALL sciter.app FILE_PERMISSIONS EXECUTE)`
-    # would mark everything as executable which is no go.
-    execute_process(COMMAND sh -c "chmod +x sciter.app/Contents/MacOS/sciter" WORKING_DIRECTORY ${SCITER_TOOLS})
-    execute_process(COMMAND sh -c "chmod +x inspector.app/Contents/MacOS/inspector" WORKING_DIRECTORY ${SCITER_TOOLS})
-
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/libsciter.dylib DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/bin)
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/libsciter.dylib DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/bin)
-
-else()
-    set(SCITER_BIN ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin.win/${SCITER_ARCH})
-    set(SCITER_BIN32 ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin.win/x32)
-
-    file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin.win/packfolder.exe DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
-    file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin.win/tiscript.exe DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
-
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN32}/wsciter.exe DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN32}/inspector.exe DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN32}/sciter.dll DESTINATION ${SCITER_TOOLS})
-
-    if ("windowless" IN_LIST FEATURES)
-        set(SCITER_BIN ${SOURCE_PATH}/bin.win/${SCITER_ARCH}lite)
-    endif()
-
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/sciter.dll DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/bin)
-    file(INSTALL ${SCITER_BIN}/sciter.dll DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/bin)
-endif()
-
-message(STATUS "Warning: Sciter requires manual deployment of the correct DLL files.")
+Options for existing users are:
+1. Depend upon `sciter-js` and change your code to work with the new library
+2. Use `"overrides"` in manifest mode to pin to `"version-string": "4.4.8.3#1"`
+3. Copy the last available `sciter` version into an overlay port (commit 756f1845537a916ba706f6af544b2f490c30fbb1 at subpath `ports/sciter`)
+4. Use the community registry `https://github.com/VuYeK/vcpkg-registry` which may have newer versions of `sciter` available (not affiliated with Microsoft)
+")
diff --git a/ports/sciter/vcpkg.json b/ports/sciter/vcpkg.json
index de007100f69427..f0af85560ce818 100644
--- a/ports/sciter/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/sciter/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,13 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "sciter",
-  "version-string": "4.4.8.3",
-  "port-version": 1,
+  "version-string": "deprecated",
   "description": "Sciter is an embeddable HTML/CSS/scripting engine.",
-  "homepage": "https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk",
-  "supports": "!uwp",
-  "features": {
-    "windowless": {
-      "description": "Uses Sciter.Lite builds"
-    }
-  }
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk"
 }
diff --git a/scripts/ci.baseline.txt b/scripts/ci.baseline.txt
index 9793facf03aa55..f60dac22cee9d8 100644
--- a/scripts/ci.baseline.txt
+++ b/scripts/ci.baseline.txt
@@ -1379,8 +1379,13 @@ ryu:x86-windows=fail
 ryu::arm64-windows=fail
 sciter:arm64-windows=fail
 sciter:arm-uwp=fail
+sciter:x64-linux=fail
+sciter:x64-osx=fail
 sciter:x64-uwp=fail
+sciter:x64-windows=fail
 sciter:x64-windows-static=fail
+sciter:x64-windows-static-md=fail
+sciter:x86-windows=fail
 scnlib:arm-uwp=fail
 scnlib:x64-uwp=fail
 scylla-wrapper:arm-uwp=fail
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 764d04d4ec2bc3..8bc5ec16e5761f 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -5881,8 +5881,12 @@
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "sciter": {
-      "baseline": "4.4.8.3",
-      "port-version": 1
+      "baseline": "deprecated",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
+    "sciter-js": {
+      "baseline": "4.4.8.16",
+      "port-version": 0
     },
     "scnlib": {
       "baseline": "0.4",
diff --git a/versions/s-/sciter-js.json b/versions/s-/sciter-js.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..7f0cd51fd30dce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/versions/s-/sciter-js.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+  "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "d8b949852b38b18eac5c4fa0c25282d531c596fd",
+      "version-string": "4.4.8.16",
+      "port-version": 0
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/versions/s-/sciter.json b/versions/s-/sciter.json
index 4f00a7e85093d7..2acb342cc50b27 100644
--- a/versions/s-/sciter.json
+++ b/versions/s-/sciter.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "1ff6683a2d398db76e1791b994dc157ffb21e88c",
+      "version-string": "deprecated",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "7508c766a2564096e3ca656f6b4a26d582dcf855",
       "version-string": "4.4.8.3",