The effective use of CO₂ has become a research hotspot worldwide, whose excessive emission led to increasingly serious global environmental problems. Compared with high energy-consuming CO₂ capture and storage(CCS) technology, the photocatalytic conversion of CO₂ into a valuable energy fuel is an effective way to solve energy and environmental problems. Among them, the development of a photocatalyst with efficient catalytic performance under visible light is the key to this process. Currently, there are still many shortcomings in photoreduction CO₂ catalysts, such as weak visible light response ability, high recombination rate of photo-generated electron-hole pairs, low CO₂ adsorption capacity, poor product selectivity, and hydrogen-evolution competition in an aqueous environment. Metal-organic frameworks(MOFs), with adjustable porous structures, fast electron migration rate, large CO₂ adsorption capacity, etc., are a unique class of porous crystalline materials composed of metal ions/clusters and organic ligands, which have broad application potential in CO₂ photocatalytic reduction. The existing methods improving the catalytic performance of MOFs-based catalysts is mainly to enhance the absorption of visible light by functional modification, formation of composites with other functional materials and so on. This review mainly analyzes and discusses the recent advances of MOFs-based photoreduction CO₂ catalysts(single MOFs, MOFs-based composites and MOFs-derived materials), and predicts future development trends and prospects of MOFs-based materials in photocatalytic reduction of CO₂.