Sorare HyperGlitch Set: How to get started
How Sorare's free HyperGlitch Set works and how to try and snag that £1000.
Sorare's new free Set launched on 8th September 2026. It is called HyperGlitch and runs until 29 October with a top prize of £1000! This is the guide I wish I had on day one of the last Set, including what the game is, what the currencies (gems and essence) do, which packs are worth buying, and how to maximise your chances of hitting the money.
I played the World Cup set and managed to hit the £100 target, missing the £1000 by just a few points. I'm going all out to grab that £1000 this time around.
What Sorare Set is
Sorare has two main modes. Pro is the paid, collectible card game. Set is free.
While they are similar in their concept Set is almost certainly the place to start if you are new to Sorare. It is entirely free to play, you open packs of digital cards, build five-card lineups and climb a ladder of rewards. No wallet, no crypto, no purchase needed to play.
HyperGlitch is the current Set and it runs until 29 October 2026, so there are about seven weeks to climb and aim for the big £1000 prize.
The climb is a six-step ladder. Each step is a points target for one five-card lineup: hit it and you take the reward and move up, and the top two steps pay real money. Step 5 is £100 and step 6 is £1,000, and you can win them more than once.
Sign up and claim the new-player bonus
Sign up through an invite code and you start with a 25 Gems and 1500 Essence bonus. That is enough for some Silver packs to kick start your journey.
Sign up to Sorare Set with my invite code. Referral link: you get the 25 Gems and 1500 Essence, I earn Essence and Gems as you complete steps.
Your starter pack
Every new account gets a HyperGlitch Starter Pack: 10 cards (three goalkeepers, two defenders, two midfielders, two forwards), one guaranteed 4-star player, two Shiny cards, one Holo card, and three players from your favourite team. That is a full five-card lineup before you open anything else. It's a really important pack to help get you started and it's made up from the league and club you choose during sign up. If you are unfamiliar with Sorare scoring then suffice it to say go with one of the European powerhouses. Don't go picking Coventry City as you'll be at a real disadvantage from the off. Pick a team stacked with stars and pray your 4-star card is one from that team, that means Barcelona, Real Madrid, PSG or Bayern!
Your first steps
There are four Daily Missions, the same four every day, and between them they pay 1,500 Essence and a pack. They are the spine of every day in the Set, so they live in the daily routine rather than here.
Your cards live in a Gallery. Cards are graded one to five stars: Reserve, Roster, Key, Star, Icon. Take a look at your gallery and you'll get a feel for the card grading.
The core game: Hot Streak
The rules are pretty straight forward.
- A full lineup is five cards: one goalkeeper, one defender, one midfielder, one forward, and one extra outfield player of your choice (a second defender, midfielder or forward). One of them is the captain and gets a 50% score bonus.
- You can enter a lineup with fewer than five, no keeper or an injured striker just to make up the numbers. The total is simply the sum of whoever you field, so a short lineup is a real option on the low levels.
- Each player scores from 0 to 100 and their collective score plus bonuses equal a total score.
- Reach the target score on a level and you'll win a prize and progress to the next level.
- You have four lives per level. If you lose a level you drop back to level 1 to start again.
- You get unlimited attempts at the ladder as a whole and you can win each of the prizes on the ladder, including the £1000, multiple times during the Set.
- You can change your lineups as much as you want, but as soon as one player in the lineup plays, the lineup is locked.
The points per player come from Sorare's 0 to 100 player score. If you don't know how that is built, read how Sorare scoring works first, it will help you know who you pick.
The ladder and where the money is
The main board has six steps. Each step is a points target and each pays out when you hit it:
| Step | Target | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 260 points | 2,000 Essence |
| 2 | 300 points | 5,000 Essence |
| 3 | 360 points | 10 Gems |
| 4 | 400 points | 30 Gems |
| 5 | 440 points | £100 & 1000 Sorare pro limited essence |
| 6 | 480 points | £1,000 & 1000 Sorare pro limited essence |
Cash steps pay in your local currency (£100 for GBP accounts, 100 euros or dollars elsewhere). You'll need a Cash Wallet on your account, or they will pay in ETH or SOL instead.
Essence and Gems
Essence is the free currency. You earn it from daily missions, collection milestones (500 to 3,500 each), the ladder (2,000 or 5,000) and inviting friends. You can spend it on Bronze packs at 1000 Essence.
Gems are the paid currency, but you can earn them too: difficult missions, the ladder and referrals all pay some. You can spend them on Silver packs (10 Gems) and Gold packs (50 Gems).
If you played Colors or Summer Camp, your progress already paid out some essence or even gems at the start of HyperGlitch.
Packs
In short summary these are the normal market packs that are available. They contain cards each with varying chances of getting different tiers of players, the more expensive, the more chance of a higher tier player:
| Pack | Cost |
|---|---|
| Gold | 50 Gems |
| Silver | 10 Gems |
| Bronze | 1000 Essence |
| Bronze+ | FREE, Earned for every 10 league specific bronze packs you open |
| Live Today Bronze and Silver | Match days only: same price as Bronze and Silver, players from that day's fixtures only |
| Daily Pack | FREE |
Missions
Play missions are daily: e.g. Goal Hunter, pick a player who scores and win 350 Essence. Collection missions are over the whole set. e.g. Collect 11 Spanish players from La Liga and win 500 essence. These scale to winning gems towards the end!
Special card treatments this Set: Holo, Shiny, Full Art, Shiny Overflow, Holo Static Fracture, plus a Legendary edition.
Editions are not just cosmetic. Each one adds a scoring bonus to the card which can be the difference between reaching a target score. They are exceptionally useful for the higher tiers!! The list is as follows: Standard 0%, Shiny 5%, Holo 10%, Shiny Overflow 15%, Holo Static Fracture 20%, Legendary 30%. For instance, a Legendary copy of a 60-point score gets an 18-point (30%) bonus and scores 78.
A few players who missed their club's media day appear as Shadow Cards with no photo. They look odd but play exactly the same, don't worry about them.
Read next
For more on how to get an edge in HyperGlitch, these go deeper: Sorare Set strategy: how to maximise HyperGlitch, a ten-minute daily routine, and how the player score is built.