GreenTongue:
Do you prefer you zombies to be more "Plants vs Zombies" or do you want to see the maggots and smell the rot?
Depends... is it survival horror? Then ratchet up the details. Is it "heroes versus the apocalypse"? then details don't matter as much (except to make the heroes look heroic).
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Do you want to count every bullet, match and can of soup?
Yes. Though counting every calorie might be a step too far. But the importance of beans and bullets is 100% on point for a
survival games.
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Are the games you play more about Survival! or about the rebuilding?
Both, usually. Can't rebuild if you don't survive, and whats the point of survival without the hope of rebuilding?
Now that said, you can feature one premise over the other just fine.
Post-Apoc is broad, broad field and to skip over the Big Damn Heroes side of the field without comment is probably wrong. On that side of the house, survival is more a veneer, a backdrop to occasionally showcase some struggle, the spice if you will, in the "Kicking Zombie/Mutant/Robot/Alien butt" soup. For reference: Z Nation, Hell Comes To Frogtown, Cherry 2000, Damnation Alley, Mad Max.
But, and I don't say this with malice intended; in those games you might as well be playing D&D in a Points Of Light campaign (so not as much my cuppa, but I can still enjoy them with the right group).