What is a good partition size

I am bootcamping because I want to play games. I want to play games on the windows partition and work on the mac partition but I am unsure of the partition sizes I should use.
please help

No less than 50GB with 60-80GB.
No idea how big the games will be and then there are the benchmark tools and such but it takes 10-12GB of free space on top of Windows; page and hibernation also eat up 8GB or more.
And be sure to leave 25-30% free on the Mac side.

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