Abstract Motivated by the Arhangel’skii “s-Lindelöf cardinal function” definition, Kočinac and Konca defined and studied set covering properties and set star covering properties. In this paper, we present results on the star covering properties called set star-Menger and set strongly star-Menger. We investigate the relationship among set star-Menger, set strongly star-Menger and other related properties and study the topological properties of set star-Menger and set strongly star-Menger properties.