Where most players know the name from
The Apollo Games brand grew up in the Czech market and from the start it backed what players there already knew: slots with a simple grid, symbols you can read at a glance and no unnecessary layers.
That is why a player in Slovakia usually runs into it not in the live section but in the part of the lobby where you play by pressing a button. It is a different kind of experience from a table with a dealer — shorter, quieter and far less showy.
The Czech and Slovak markets stayed close to one another even after the country split. Tastes were formed on similar machines, so a brand that works in Brno as a rule works in Žilina too.
What this workshop is genuinely good at
The Apollo Games portfolio stands on two legs. The first is classic slots — games with a small number of paylines, a quick round and visuals that nod to the machines in bricks-and-mortar arcades. The second is table games in RNG form: roulette, the card classics, now and then something from the video poker family.
The common denominator is restraint. No sprawling bonus stories spread over three screens, no mechanics you have to study before your first stake. You spin, you see the result, you move on.
That is also why the brand has a steady audience. Anyone after a show goes elsewhere; anyone after calm and familiar surroundings stays.
We deliberately give no figures for the size of the portfolio or for the company's history — verifiable data about suppliers is rarer in this industry than it might seem.
Why nobody is standing at its tables
This is the heart of the whole page. Apollo Games does not run a live studio of its own with real dealers. So if you come across roulette or cards carrying its signature in the lobby, it is a game worked out by software — not a broadcast from a room where somebody is spinning a wheel.
That is neither an oversight nor a weakness. A live studio is a completely different business: broadcast equipment, direction, staff on shifts, transmission lines and round-the-clock operation. Most game developers never go near it, because all it has in common with making games is that the result ends up on the same screen.
The live tables in Slovak casinos therefore come from specialist workshops — in the overwhelming majority of cases from Evolution or Pragmatic Play Live.
Apollo Games fills a different role in the portfolio. It rounds the offer out with home-grown, easy-to-follow content for the moments between two live rounds.
What each format gives the player and what it takes away
Instead of theory about random number generators, here are seven questions a player genuinely asks when picking a game.
| The player's question | RNG game (for example from Apollo Games) | Live table from a studio |
|---|---|---|
| Who spins or deals | A program on the server | A dealer in front of a camera |
| What is on the screen | The game's own graphics and sound | A live picture from a gaming studio |
| When the next round starts | The moment you click | Once the time for taking bets runs out |
| What it does to your data | Very little, it copes with a patchy network | Video runs non-stop and data drains away |
| Where confidence comes from | From the published rules and from testing of the game | From seeing the whole round unfold |
| Can you talk to anyone | No, you are playing on your own | Yes, through the chat at the table |
| Who the format suits | Short sessions and a calm pace | A longer evening and the casino atmosphere |
The table does not say which format is better. It says only that they suit different situations — and once a player takes that on board, they stop looking for a live dealer where there never was one.
Why a simple slot still works in Czechia and Slovakia
In the big international catalogues the lead today belongs to games with elaborate mechanics, cascades and bonus buys. In the region where Apollo Games grew up, though, the opposite approach has held on to its place as well.
The reason is partly generational. Plenty of players spun their first rounds on physical machines in arcades and have a relationship with that look which no marketing can manufacture. The sound, the colours and the pace simply suit them.
The second reason is more practical: a simple game does not demand concentration. You can leave it running alongside a TV series and miss nothing.
A live table cannot be played that way. Either you give it your attention or you get nothing out of it — and that is exactly the difference between relaxed and sociable play, which we went into in more detail in our live casino guide.
Where to look when you want a real dealer
If you landed on this page wondering where to find live tables from Apollo Games, the answer is short: nowhere, no such tables exist.
What does exist is the offer from workshops that broadcast live games full time. Roulette with multipliers, blackjack without waiting for a free seat, game shows with a host — an overview of the most played titles is in our ranking of top live games.
When you move between the formats, one thing is worth remembering. The pace of a live table is set by somebody other than you, so both your budget and your time go faster than you are used to from a slot.
And if a similar case of a brand without a studio of its own interests you, have a look at the NetEnt profile — the situation is almost identical, only on a different scale.
What to expect from the brand and what not to
To sum up without embellishment: Apollo Games is a Czech games workshop with a strong position in classic slots and a decent range of table games in software form. For a player in Slovakia it is a familiar name that looks at home in the lobby.
What there is no point expecting from it is a live broadcast. No dealer, no physical wheel, no chat — and nothing of the sort is claimed on its own pages either.
For an ordinary evening that leads to a simple conclusion. When you want calm rounds at your own pace, you reach for this part of the lobby; when you want the atmosphere of a casino, you switch across to the live tables.
Both routes are legitimate. In the end, more important than the choice of supplier is whether you have a limit and a time set in advance — play from the age of 18 makes sense only as entertainment, not as a way of earning.