Honor of Kings (HoK) is one of the most popular mobile game in the world. There are vigorous debates on whether and how HoK will influence historic view of the players (especially juveniles). However there is still lack of related empirical research. This paper aims to provide some evidences as well as develop a theory on the influencing mechanism of similar games. Survey studies were conducted with 907 valid samples of adults with high educational background. Data including with the emotional attitudes towards real historical fgures, willingness to know, and related historical knowledge of the respondents was collected. Their gaming behavior and demographic information were also measured. The results of the studies demonstrated that playing HoK does have emotional in?uence on the player’s attitude towards historical fgures, especially for those are familiar with certain heroes of HoK. The paper introduces an explication of the in?uencing mechanism with the effect of “real emotions in virtual play” that is based on the concept of player-avatar identifcation.