The game was nominated for Best Breakthrough Game during the 2019 Google Play Awards. By October 2019, it had been downloaded 54.6 million times. It was the fastest of Jam City's games to reach $100 million in revenue, generating $110 million in its first year. Within its first day, the game was ranked first on the App Store's free-to-play category and reached tenth place on the list of top-grossing games across categories. On April 25, 2018, Jam City released Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, a mobile game based on J. SGN rebranded as Jam City in September 2016, the same year Genies & Gems, a match-3 puzzle game, was launched.
Mobile entertainment games that Tin圜o had created include Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff and Marvel Avengers Academy. The latter acquisition raised SGN's staff count from 125 to 400. in late 2015, followed by Tin圜o in July 2016. Following Netmarble's investment, SGN bought the developers Fat Rascal Games and Kiwi Inc. By the time of Netmarble's investment, SGN games had been downloaded 500 million times. In the wake of Cookie Jam 's success, the South Korean mobile game company Netmarble invested $130 million in SGN in July 2015, becoming SGN's largest shareholder this was one of the largest investments in mobile gaming since 2013. Cookie Jam was also among the 20 highest-grossing mobile games for Google Play and the App Store. Cookie Jam was named Facebook's game of the year with more than 100 million downloads and 5 million active players at the time. The match-3 puzzle game Cookie Jam launched in 2014. The company launched the game Panda Pop in 2013, which would later become one of the highest-grossing mobile games. In June 2013, SGN acquired Mob Science, a developer of social games known for Legends: Rise of a Hero. The new MindJolt acquired Social Gaming Network (or SGN) and Hallpass Media in April 2011, which added mobile games to the company's portfolio. Fields remained with the company to lead strategy.
Platform G acquired MindJolt, a social gaming platform founded by Richard Fields, in March 2010 and took its name. The company launched in 2010 when the co-founders raised US$28 million from Austin Ventures for their business, then called Platform G. Jam City was founded by the Myspace co-founders Chris DeWolfe, Colin Digiaro and Aber Whitcomb, and former 20th Century Fox executive Josh Yguado.
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