Announcement: in July 2023, GameArt rolled out 15 HTML5 slots on Pasino.ch.
Operator: Pasino.ch is the online casino of Casino du Lac Meyrin SA, a Geneva casino owned by Groupe Partouche.
Launch: the platform has been live since 16 November 2020, according to the Swiss Federal Gaming Board (FGB).
Headliner: Striking Joker was GameArt's best-performing game on Pasino.ch at the time of the announcement.
Game library: the batch mixes fruit machines, blazing sevens and story-driven worlds such as Piggy Bjorn, Santa's Factory and Hollywoof.
Swiss track record: GameArt entered the Swiss market in January 2021 with 18 games on Casino777.ch, the online brand of Casino Davos.
Legal framework: since the Gambling Act came into force in 2019, only licensed land-based casinos can offer online casino games, once their licence has been extended.
Market: ten casinos offer online gambling in 2026, and Pasino.ch is the only one attached to a casino in French-speaking Switzerland.
2024 figures: online gross gaming revenue reached CHF 309.9 million (+8.5%) and 601 sites were added to the blocking list.
Access: only adults who are domiciled or habitually resident in Switzerland can open an account.
Pasino.ch and GameArt: 15 slots for the Swiss online casino in Meyrin
In July 2023, GameArt plugged fifteen HTML5 slots into Pasino.ch, the online casino of Casino du Lac Meyrin in the canton of Geneva. Founded in 2013, the studio was dealt a fresh hand in one of Europe's most tightly locked markets. A small slice of GameArt's game library was moving into a casino that the provider itself counted among the flagships of Groupe Partouche.
In Switzerland, you don't open an online casino the way you launch a web shop. First you need walls and a federal licence. Then you need an extension of that licence for gaming on screen. That lock gives weight to every announcement. For a studio, getting onto a Swiss platform is like being offered a seat at a private table.
Three years on, the Pasino.ch GameArt story deserves a careful second look. Swiss online gambling has grown, the register of blocked sites has lengthened and two more casinos have opened their digital doors. So, are these fifteen titles a genuine winning hand or just a warm-up round?
Which GameArt games arrived on Pasino.ch?
For the Geneva operator, the batch comes down to fifteen titles. The GameArt press release, relayed by European Gaming, lists them all in this order:
Striking Joker
40 Super Heated Sevens
20 Hot Fruit Delights
Piggy Bjorn Muspelheim's Treasure
Book of Cupigs
Santa's Factory
Dynamite Fruits Deluxe
Dolphin's Dream
Summer Jam
Lucky Coins
Hollywoof
Xtreme Hot
Super Heated 7's
Hot Fruit Delights
Dynamite Fruits
Read those names out loud and an old tune comes back: fruit, white-hot sevens, lucky coins. The heart of the batch beats to the rhythm of fruit machines, the one-armed bandits that casino floors have lined up for generations. Around them, a few more story-driven worlds act as a counterpoint. Piggy Bjorn heads off in search of treasure in Muspelheim, the realm of fire in Norse mythology. Santa's Factory plays the festive card, Hollywoof leans on a canine pun, and Book of Cupigs gives a hearty wink to the big “Book of” family.
One thing strikes me every time I reread the list: it contains at least three pairs of twins. Super Heated 7's sits next to 40 Super Heated Sevens. Hot Fruit Delights rubs shoulders with 20 Hot Fruit Delights, and Dynamite Fruits arrives with its Deluxe version. Fifteen titles, then, but far fewer than fifteen worlds. I won't hold that against the operator. A casino that grew out of a slot floor knows its crowd. These players like to find the familiar codes of the casino cabinets on their phones. Variations reassure more than they surprise. Perhaps that is exactly what they were meant to do.
Striking Joker tops the bill
One name stands out in the press release. Striking Joker is presented as the best-performing GameArt game on Pasino.ch at the time of the announcement. Beware of a common misreading among players. When an operator talks about performance, it means the activity and revenue a title generates, not how generous its reels are. This joker above all knew how to hold attention. That counts for a lot in a lobby where every thumbnail fights for a glance.
Pasino.ch: the digital shop window of Casino du Lac Meyrin
Pasino.ch is no brand floating in the cloud. Behind the screen stands Casino du Lac Meyrin SA, a Geneva casino owned by Groupe Partouche. According to the official list of online casinos kept by the Swiss Federal Gaming Board (FGB), its platform has been live since 16 November 2020.
Meyrin has a delightful twist: it is also home to CERN. In the same municipality, physicists accelerate particles on one side while reels spin on the other. Chance gets measured in the lab and played on screen.
On the operator side, Rupert Ecker set the tone. The Managing Director of Pasino.ch said the platform was committed to “the best game content on a high level”. That promise holds on one condition. You have to add studios without diluting the overall coherence.
Nevena Aleksieva, Head of Sales at GameArt, made the studio's ambition just as clear. Its games were already popular in Switzerland, she explained, and the partnership was a major step in GameArt's plan to expand its presence in the country. The stated goal came down to a piece of trade jargon: diversifying Pasino.ch's slot mix. The idea behind it is simple. The slot mix is the make-up of a slot library. An operator tunes its balance of classics, new releases, themes and volatility levels the way a sommelier builds a wine list.
From Davos to Meyrin: GameArt's Swiss journey
Meyrin was not the studio's first Swiss stop. GameArt made its entry into the regulated Swiss market on 20 January 2021 with Casino777.ch, the online brand of Casino Davos. Eighteen slots went live on the Davos platform at the time, including Chili Quest, Battle for Atlantis and African Sunset.
From Graubünden to the far end of Lake Geneva, the studio therefore crossed the Röstigraben, the invisible line between German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland. That detail matters. The language on screen changes from one side to the other, and so do the cultural references. A provider welcomed on both sides of the line shows that its games travel well.
The parallel with Italy is hard to miss. In May 2026, GameArt joined the online platform of the world's oldest casino. Casino di Venezia traces its origins back to 1638. In Meyrin as on the lagoon, the studio teams up with houses whose prestige was built within four walls long before it moved to screens. I see a consistent choice here. In a regulated market, trust travels better through stone than through advertising.
Why can only a land-based casino open an online casino in Switzerland?
Because the law says so. The Swiss Gambling Act came into force on 1 January 2019 and reserves online casino games for casinos that already hold a Swiss licence. The Federal Council must first grant them a licence extension. The FGB then has to approve each game before the first spin. A purely digital operator with no physical casino simply has no place in this system.
The result looks like a walled garden, and the Federal Council and the FGB hold the keys. Ten casinos currently offer online gambling. Baden opened the way in July 2019, and the latest arrivals are Mendrisio in July 2025 and Locarno in March 2026. One detail stands out: Pasino.ch remains the only one of these ten platforms attached to a casino in French-speaking Switzerland.
This garden pays, and increasingly so. According to the FGB's 2024 annual report, online gross gaming revenue (GGR) reached CHF 309.9 million, up 8.5%. GGR is the difference between the stakes collected and the winnings paid back to players. In other words, it is a casino's real takings before tax. The tax figures for the same year point to a shift. Casino tax from online gaming rose 10% to CHF 132 million, while tax from land-based gaming fell 7.1% to CHF 269 million. In total, CHF 358 million went to the Swiss state pension and disability insurance fund (AHV/IV).
The flip side is the hunt for unauthorised sites. On 31 December 2024, the FGB's blocking list of online gambling offers had 2,093 entries, 601 more than a year earlier. Swiss internet service providers must block access to them. For players, this blacklist works as a warning: a site that appears on it operates outside Swiss rules.
Who can play at Pasino.ch?
An adult who lives in Switzerland, and no one else. The FGB's frequently asked questions list four conditions for opening a player account, as set out in Article 47 of the Gambling Ordinance:
Age: be 18 or older.
Residence: be domiciled in Switzerland or have your habitual residence there.
Exclusion: not be excluded from gambling.
Ban: not belong to the groups barred from gambling by law, such as casino staff involved in running the games.
The account can be opened provisionally. However, the operator must verify your identity within a month, using a copy of an official ID document or an electronic identity. Keep your documents handy, because verification is a normal part of the process.
Cross-border workers and visitors, take note. Working in Geneva while living in France, Germany or Italy does not count, and neither does a weekend by the lake. Without a Swiss domicile or habitual residence, the door to Pasino.ch stays closed, commuter or not.
Four habits before you bet
Start by checking the FGB list. Ten platforms appear on it, and any other offer falls outside the Swiss legal framework. It takes thirty seconds and spares you plenty of nasty surprises.
Next, set your limits before the first bet, not after the tenth. Every licensed platform offers a temporary break from gambling. You choose its length, up to six months, and it only applies to the casino concerned.
If a break is not enough, exclusion from gambling takes over. It applies across Switzerland and, since 7 January 2025, in Liechtenstein too. Land-based and online casinos are both covered. Only the casino that imposed it can lift it, at your request and once the reasons behind it are gone.
The last habit is, in my view, the most underrated: be wary of any site that lets you play while you are excluded. For the FGB, that is very likely the sign of an offer that is not authorised in Switzerland. If you have doubts about your own gambling, the intercantonal SOS-jeu programme offers information and guidance to players and their families.
What future for GameArt in Swiss online casinos?
The studio has not put all its chips on Switzerland. In spring 2026, right after Venice, it joined a Spanish casino and sports betting platform operating under a national licence. The method barely changes from one country to the next: regulated markets, established partners and curated selections rather than floods of titles.
A few questions remained open after the 2023 announcement. Can fifteen titles stand out in libraries where bigger rivals line up entire collections? Will the newer online casinos in Mendrisio and Locarno welcome the studio, as Davos and then Meyrin did? And what becomes of the brick-and-mortar casino when most of the growth now happens on screen?
I would happily bet on one thing. As long as federal law requires a casino behind every screen, studios will have to win over casino operators who know their clientele inside out. GameArt did it in Davos, in Meyrin and with its other casino partners, without ever forcing the door. It is demanding and sometimes slow. That slowness has its virtues, though. It gives players time to decide whether the joker really strikes true.
FAQ: GameArt and Pasino.ch
How many GameArt slots arrived on Pasino.ch?
Fifteen HTML5 slots, announced in July 2023. The batch includes Striking Joker, Book of Cupigs, Santa's Factory, Hollywoof and Piggy Bjorn Muspelheim's Treasure.
Which GameArt game performed best on Pasino.ch?
Striking Joker. GameArt presented it as its best-performing title on the platform at the time of the announcement.
Who runs Pasino.ch?
Casino du Lac Meyrin SA, a casino in the canton of Geneva owned by Groupe Partouche. According to the FGB, the platform has been live since 16 November 2020.
Is Pasino.ch a legal online casino in Switzerland?
Yes. Casino Meyrin appears on the list of online casinos published by the FGB, the federal authority that supervises Swiss casinos.
How many online casinos are licensed in Switzerland?
Ten casinos offer online gambling in 2026, all of them backed by a licensed land-based casino. The latest arrivals are Mendrisio, in 2025, and Locarno, in 2026.
Can non-residents play at Pasino.ch?
No. A Swiss online casino only opens accounts for adults who are domiciled or habitually resident in Switzerland. Tourists and cross-border workers who live abroad are not eligible.
When did GameArt enter the Swiss market?
In January 2021, when eighteen of its slots went live on Casino777.ch, the platform of Casino Davos. Pasino.ch followed in July 2023.
How big is online gambling in Switzerland?
In 2024, online gross gaming revenue reached CHF 309.9 million, up 8.5%, according to the FGB's annual report.
What is the FGB blocking list?
It is the list of online gambling sites that are not authorised in Switzerland and that internet service providers must block. It had 2,093 entries at the end of 2024, 601 more than a year earlier.
Does an exclusion from gambling also apply to online casinos?
Yes. It covers land-based and online casinos across Switzerland and, since 7 January 2025, in Liechtenstein, as well as online lotteries and sports betting.
