Since the advent of video games, its powerful interactivity and simulation have attracted the attention of all walks of life, and the "educational video games" formed by the combination of education and video games has also set off in-depth research and exploration by scholars at home and abroad. This paper sorts out the relevant literature from 2008 to 2017 by searching the literature on educational video games in Web of Science and using the methods of bibliometrics and visual analysis. This paper compares the distribution of published time, high-yield research institutions and high-yield re...