{"id":1202370,"date":"2026-02-19T17:32:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sL5eDsze4NwW6YCVK9ppWm"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:32:51","slug":"the-first-ever-third-party-game-to-come-to-steam-probably-doesnt-get-the-respect-it-deserves-mostly-because-no-one-remembers-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-first-ever-third-party-game-to-come-to-steam-probably-doesnt-get-the-respect-it-deserves-mostly-because-no-one-remembers-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The first ever third-party game to come to Steam probably doesn&#8217;t get the respect it deserves\u2014mostly because no one remembers it"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Steam&#8217;s newly automated monthly top-seller list now lets you go <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/platforms\/steams-monthly-top-seller-list-is-automated-now-and-goes-all-the-way-back-to-2004-when-its-just-half-life-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">all the way back to 2004<\/a>, and it&#8217;s been a fun way to take a trip down memory lane. And as Jody noted, it&#8217;s shined a light on one particular oddity: Rag Doll Kung Fu.<\/p>\n<p>Chances are you&#8217;ve never heard of it, but this fighting game has the honour of being the first ever third-party game to come to Steam, back in 2005. That&#8217;s before the release of The Orange Box, even\u2014back then it was basically just a launcher for Half-Life 2. And then it suddenly had martial arts puppet action too.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1024px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:79.98%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"XusjL3n2Wou3eXvzsBaC3c\" name=\"rag doll kung fu 3\" alt=\"Martial artists fighting over a football in Rag Doll Kung Fu.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/the-first-ever-third-party-game-to-come-to-steam-probably-doesnt-get-the-respect-it-deserves-mostly-because-no-one-remembers-it.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Mark Healey)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was created by developer Mark Healey. You might not recognise the name, but you&#8217;ll certainly know games he&#8217;s worked on. He was at Bullfrog during the Dungeon Keeper days, and when Peter Molyneux left to co-found Lionhead, Healey went with him and worked on Fable and Black &#038; White.<\/p>\n<p>Rag Doll Kung Fu was a project he worked on while he was there, in his spare time\u2014apparently based on an amateur martial arts movie he&#8217;d made with his friends, footage of which is sprinkled throughout. Shortly after its release, he left Lionhead to co-found Media Molecule, and worked on the LittleBigPlanet games and more recently Dreams. That&#8217;s right, despite his role in PC history, he ultimately abandoned us for the PlayStation.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t speak to the quality of Rag Doll Kung Fu myself\u2014I&#8217;ll admit I never played it at the time. My understanding is that it&#8217;s a sort of Smash Bros-adjacent party fighter with stretchy physics and some iffy racial stereotypes. Whether it deserves a re-appraisal or not, I can&#8217;t say.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1024px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:75.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"zJ2mEjxEybsgedziQgwr2c\" name=\"rag doll kung fu 5\" alt=\"A man grimacing as he pokes two ninjas behind him in the eyes in Rag Doll Kung Fu.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/the-first-ever-third-party-game-to-come-to-steam-probably-doesnt-get-the-respect-it-deserves-mostly-because-no-one-remembers-it-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Mark Healey)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But regardless, its place in the history books has long been assured. It&#8217;s easy to take Steam&#8217;s dominance of PC gaming for granted now, but there was very much a time when it was seen as annoying and pointless. Without developers like Mark Healey taking a risk on Valve&#8217;s dream of a digital marketplace, the entire landscape of our hobby would likely look very different now. For that, Rag Doll Kung Fu, we give you the acknowledgement and respect you deserve.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually still <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1002\/Rag_Doll_Kung_Fu\/\" target=\"_blank\">available on Steam 20 years on<\/a>, and for only a dollar too, if you&#8217;re curious to experience a piece of PC gaming lore for yourself\u2014though I wouldn&#8217;t be 100% confident of it running on modern systems, at least not without some work. It is also flatly &#8220;Unsupported&#8221; on Steam Deck.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1024px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:79.98%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"z3bQsVwCziejgYyCTSus2c\" name=\"rag doll kung fu 4\" alt=\"A martial artist kicking a \"dirty troll\" in Rag Doll Kung Fu.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/the-first-ever-third-party-game-to-come-to-steam-probably-doesnt-get-the-respect-it-deserves-mostly-because-no-one-remembers-it-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Mark Healey)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit surprised to discover how few user reviews it has, though\u2014it&#8217;s sitting at a Mostly Positive (73%) with just 68 reviews, which makes it look like a random bit of shovelware rather than enshrined gaming history. But then, it did launch eight years before Steam reviews even existed, which <em>might <\/em>explain it.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, it continues to receive the odd review every now and then. User mudkipi, for example, did so as recently as November last year, and somehow got a free copy (are they still giving out review code?). As they so wisely put it, &#8220;They ragging on my kung til I fu&#8221;. As worthy an epitaph as any for a truly historic game.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fighting\/the-first-ever-third-party-game-to-come-to-steam-probably-doesnt-get-the-respect-it-deserves-mostly-because-no-one-remembers-it\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam&#8217;s newly automated monthly top-seller list now lets you go all the way back to 2004, and it&#8217;s been a fun way to take a trip down memory lane. And as Jody noted, it&#8217;s shined a light on one particular oddity: Rag Doll Kung Fu. Chances are you&#8217;ve never heard of it, but this fighting game has the honour of being the first ever third-party game to come to Steam, back in 2005. That&#8217;s before the release of The Orange Box, even\u2014back then it was basically just a launcher for Half-Life 2. And then it suddenly had martial arts puppet action too. (Image credit: Mark Healey) It was created by developer Mark Healey. 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