Risking one's life to help a friend may be a noble endeavor, but what if taking action creates more problems than it solves? Safely secluded in a large apartment complex of an abandoned college town, a fractious group of ten students struggle with whether or not to rescue someone across campus. When the vote is complicated by both reasoned dispute and petty infighting, Jack O'Connor must strategize the forming of a coalition or risk endangering the group's future survival: if they can't make this simple decision together, how will they react when facing death? Is the cost of inaction more dangerous than an expedition through a town filled with zombies? Following the events of Life After: The Arising, Life After: Zugzwang explores the group dynamic when Jeff's friends hundreds of miles away decide whether to find his brother Dave, giving startling insight to the characters he meets at the end of Life After: The Void as it illuminates how complicated relationships are tested when people are forced to act in a time of crisis.