For me the best ever survivalist game was fallout. I loved 1,2 and the brotherhood of steel. For me it is one of the best series in this genre!
Played it? not played it?
What do you think?

It's not too bad once you get into the swing of it, I'm looking forward to playing the first 2 games if I can get them to run and new vegas

Once you get out of the vault (the boring bit) it really picks up and does have a strong survivalist feel to it. Also, once you get into the open it's the kind of game where you could spend 3+ hours playing it, or just pick it up for a hour and then go and do something else. I was a good character in the first two runs, i'm now being an evil character.

Yeah, if you get stuck on something, just look it up on youtube, there are multiple guides for every single part of the game on there. I do that before i buy games too, i look on youtube and watch others playing to see if i like the look of the game or not before i buy it.

As for top 10 PA games, not sure, i don't play loads of different games, i don't get enough time. I haven't played Fallout 1 or 2. I suppose there is a fair few zombie games which could be in the list. Left for Dead 2 was really good. I haven't played Dead Island but that looks really good, prob getting that one next. Fallout New Vegas was excellent too. Will have a think about others and come back.