SET® Mania Reviews

Off-putting messages at end of game

oleander parks

Couldn’t agree more with other reviewers about the tedious game-ending messages that can’t be turned off.

Absolute crap

drahthaar

Game present unsolvable combinations. I screen captured and sent to friends thinking I was going daft. No. Just a crappy app

Marathon does not register

Chamaquita-PR

We can not get the scoring to save on the achievements for the marathon with advanced deck. We have finished the hand with a 1 and 2 star hands.

Great Brain Game

chazzay

Set is a great game— this isn’t the most polished app in the world but It lets my play as much Set as I want, anytime and anywhere. That alone is worth the money.

Love hate relationship with the app

Shanstra

This app is great except for one thing that was removed about a year ago. There used to be the option in the settings that would make it so there was always a set out on the board, sure it may seem cheap to those who have played the physical card game, but it was great for playing on the app. Now that that is no longer an option the game can get stuck throwing out cards with no sets and killing an otherwise perfect round! It is also helpful for those learning to play the game. So basically what I’m trying to say is, great app, but bring back the old options!

Needs multiplayer

hersheybar95

This app is fine as a rudimentary set game, but so much of the fun of playing is playing against other people. It’s beyond my comprehension why there couldn’t be a multi-player mode wherein, as soon as you click on a set, a little screen pops up asking which player to credit the set, which the player who got the set can click, after which it returns to gameplay with three new cards. Without that functionality it’s seriously stunted in what it can do.

Weird messages at end of game

aedifica

Like another reviewer, I find the messages at the end of each game off-putting. I just finished a game, ending with a new high score, and at the top there was a banner that said "Don't be discouraged, try again." I'd rather have no message at all than these "encouraging" messages. (I looked in the game's settings to see if there was a way to turn that off, but the settings area is pretty bare-bones and there was nothing about this there.)

More, Please

Ben0517

I like the game Set a lot. I love being able to play it on my phone wherever. I’ve been spending my time analyzing the mathematics of it. I’ve been modeling it as a 3 or 4 dimensional torus, and a set is any straight line within it. I wish that the app explained what all the different games are. For Rediscovery, Marathon, and Arcade, it feels like I’m just playing regular Set as fast as I can, and then it stops at some point, because I can’t figure out what the rules are precisely. I got really into Set when I found it on the New York Times crossword puzzle page. It gives you four games of Puzzle, 2 basic and 2 advanced. With the basic pack, it picks one attribute to keep constant, but it changes from day to day for variety. In this app, the basic pack always has all the cards have a solid pattern. I really wish they could change that up randomly, because it doesn’t change the gameplay at all, but it does give you opportunity to see different sets. And variety is fun. I’d love it if there could be a shuffle button to rearrange all the cards. It’s a nice tool when I am stuck, and I use it all the time on the nytimes page.

Good mind stimulation

nuevallorker

...And they went all the way back to 1993 to find their graphic designer!

Massive fail

Ric_Steinberger

This App failed so badly that it locked up my iPhone X which then had to be rebooted to regain control. Even with this massive failure, Apple refuses to issue a refund.