For me it's Captain Claw - 2d platformer for PC
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I have to dispute the first of its kind claim. The Natural Selection mod for HL1 did it years earlier, and honestly better too.
A mod, not a full fledged game.
This is from back in the day when total conversion mods were basically just F2P games without the bullshit monetisation.
NS got far more player hours than Savage ever got, whether people made money off it or not.
They both came out around the same time. Savage 2 lent towards RPG style levelling with it's classes. I think it's possible get the last versions of the games free to download.
NS1 version 1.0 released (which is what most places list as the mod's "release date") about a year before the first savage open beta, but had been in very popular and basically complete beta versions for at least another year or two before that.
When news of Savage came out it very much felt like "oh, finally a professional standalone game in this genre".
I thought there was only about a 6 month gap between proper release. There were other games before NS or Savage like that, for example Giants citizen kabuto mentioned here, had parts where you would build a base and farm resources and build stuff.