Agriculture, industrialization, and fossil fuel consumption lead to a significant imbalance and redistribution of nitrogen-containing resources. Alternative sustainable approaches are required to avoid the CO2 footprint related to nitrogen-containing commodities. Haber-Bosch (HB) process mediated commercial NH3 synthesis suffers from excess CO2 emission, therefore electrochemical/ photochemical methods to bring the N2 to NH3 under milder conditions depicts an alternative pathway. Recently, a growing number of studies on individual electrochemical (EC) photochemical (PC) along with photoelectrochemical (PEC) techniques have attracted extensive attention. Among them PEC method comes with the hurdles of materials’ design complexity as in PEC, it is vital to consider maximum solar light absorption along with the catalytic active site for nitrogen adsorption and inert N≡N activation. Here we provide an overview of the latest progress and current state of knowledge on photoelectrochemical NRR catalysts and challenges. The study is supplemented by the material design and understanding of the hetero-material interfaces' role in PEC-NRR. Nevertheless, suppressive techniques for NRR competitor H2 evolution is also discussed. Finally, an initial blueprint of PEC-NRR catalyst performance has been presented, along with its future prospects.