With the rapid growth of mobile network and infrastructures, location-related services accross multiple domains have received a great deal of attention. However, privacy is always an important problem that has a great influence on services. In order to research the attack and defence of privacy, we present the existing gametheoretic literatures for their interactions about mobile location privacy problems. We first demonstrate the necessity of game theory applied to location privacy. Then, we divide the literatures into four types according to different game players. Next, we describe the detailed content and analyse the equilibrium of privacy games. In addition, we also provide the works based on mechanism design to motive the defenders to increase the defence in various contexts. Finally, we also discuss the possible trends and challenges of the future research. Our survey provides a systematic and comprehensive understanding about location privacy preservation problems in mobile network. CCS CONCEPTS • Security and privacy → Privacy protections; Social aspects of security and privacy; Economics of security and privacy; • Networks → Mobile networks;