  Frequency-dependent selection reflects the interaction between different
species as they battle for limited resources in their environment. In a
stochastic evolutionary game the species relative fitnesses guides the
evolutionary dynamics which fluctuate due to random drift. Dependence of
species selection advantages on the environment introduces additional
possibilities for the evolutionary dynamics. We analyse a simple model in which
a random environment allows competing species to coexist for a long time before
a fixation of a single species happens. In our analysis we use stability in a
linear combination of competing species to approximate the stochastic dynamics
of the system by a diffusion on a one dimensional co-existence region. Our
method significantly simplifies calculating the probability of first extinction
and its expected time, and demonstrates a rigorous model reduction technique
for evaluating quasistationary properties of a stochastic evolutionary model.
